"Map of AUSTRALIA or POLYNESIA, based on the drawings, travelogues and diaries of the most exquisite navigators up to 1789", section Sumatra - Marquesas Islands, Japan - New Zealand. Weigel und Schneider (bookshop, publisher). 2nd edition, engraving, hand coloured (border of Asia red, Indonesia yellow, Australia, New Guinea and Micronesia green, Polynesia and Melanesia red). Approx. 1 : 23,000,000. Nuremberg. Folded vertically, 67.5 x 50 cm; thematic map (voyages of discovery); not true to scale (New Guinea stretched, Tasmania connected to Australia); mounted on cardboard. Note: without scale; equatorial Meridian grid (Greenwich) with points of the compass; designation of Australia as "New-Holland"; drawing of the voyages of discovery (coloured) and geographical features, stamp (?) on reverse.

• HZAN GA 105 Nr. 51
• File
• (1792) 1796

Part of State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein (Archivtektonik)

Abschnitt Sumatra - Marquesas-Inseln, Japan - Neuseeland. Weigel und Schneider (Buchhandlung, Herausgeber). 2. Auflage, Stich, handkoloriert (Grenze von Asien rot, Gebiet Indonesien gelb, Australien, Neuguinea und Mikronesien grün, Polynesien und ...

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