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DescriptionVallard Australia-1547d.jpg |
English: Facsimile of chart from Nicholas Vallard's manuscript sea atlas (1547), showing Jave La Grande's east coast. The facsimile was given the title "The first Map of Australia from Nicholas Vallard's Atlas, 1547" by the English publisher in 1856. The original Vallard chart was produced in Dieppe, France in the 16th century, and is thought by several writers to represent Portuguese charting of the eastern coast of Australia. This copy is held by the National Library of Australia. [cartographic material] : from the Library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. at Middle Hill, 1856.
Image from the National Library of Australia: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm2393 The original Vallard map is held by the Huntington Library, San Marino, California and can be viewed at http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/hehweb/HM29.html From NLA catalogure information: Scale: Scale indeterminable. Publisher: [Worcestershire : Middle Hill Press, 1856] (Chester : McGahey chromo. lith.) Date: 1856 Material Type: Map Physical Description: 1 map : col. ; 37.6 x 55.4 cm. Notes: Facsimile of chart from Nicholas Vallard's manuscript sea atlas (1547), now held in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Map is in folder with title: Vallard's map of the coast of Greater Java. |
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Source | Nicholas Vallard's manuscript sea atlas of 1547 (http://histo.cat/1/Vallard_Australia-1547c.jpg) |
Author | Nicholas Vallard (modified-edited by mcapdevila) |
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