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C1812
Oceanique
Mapmaker:
Pierre Lapie (1779 - 1850)
Nice example of one of two maps of Australia by Lapie which are the second earliest, published maps of a completed Australian coastline and which show the results of of the French expedition under the command of Nicholas Baudin’s who … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Oceanique
Date:
C1812
Mapmaker:
Pierre Lapie (1779 - 1850)
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
290mm
x 215mm
Paper Size:
350mm
x 265mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1812
Description:
Nice example of one of two maps of Australia by Lapie which are the second earliest, published maps of a completed Australian coastline and which show the results of of the French expedition under the command of Nicholas Baudin’s who completed the chart of the southern coasts from Nutys Land to Bass Strait, the results of which completed the coastal mapping of Australia. A decorative title cartouche is at lower right.
This maps precede Flinders’s map of the continent as the publication of Flinder’s important atlas was in 1814, was delayed by his imprisonment at Mauritius by the French.
The coast is coloured in sections to reflect various historical discoveries made by the Dutch, English and French.
From Conrad Malte-Brun’s, Atlas Complet du Precis de la Geographie Universelle. Paris 1812.
Tooley, 841
Collections:
National Library of Australia: Bib ID1160680
Mapmaker:
Pierre Lapie (1779-1850)
First Geographer to the King of France, Chief of the Topographic section of the War Office, military cartographer & publisher. Lapie was active in all these fields in Paris from the 1820’s. This map is from his Atlas Universal which he issued with Alexandre Emile.
