Oceanique. Partie de la Nouvelle Hollande. No. 51

Scarce large scale c.19th map of northern New South Wales and Queensland coast extending from Shoal Bay to 1770, named on the chart as Bustard Bay from Vandermaelen’s monumental atlas.

It was James Cook who the Bay on 23rd May, 1770.

Cook Journal; We saw some Bustards such as we have in England, one of which we kill’d … which occasioned my giving this place the name of Bustard Bay.

Vandermaelen, Atlas universel was the first atlas produced using lithography. It was also the first atlas in which all the maps were on the same scale (1:1,641,836) and additionally the maps were designed to be joined into a three-dimensional terrestrial globe with a diameter of approximately 7.75 meters. He built one example of the monumental globe that the maps were designed to create and measured more than 7.01m in diameter.

From: Vandermaelen, Atlas universel de geographie physique, politique, statistique et mineralogique, sur l’echelle

References:
Phillips, P. A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress. Washington 1973 : 749.

Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 3359
Library of Congress Washington D.C.: LCCN 2012587601
Princeton University Library: Call number: MAP Oversize 2009-0008E
David Rumsey Collection: List No: 2212C
National Maritime Museum Greenwich: 179