1785 Rigobert Bonne Antique Map of Australia, Botany Bay, Tasmania & Queensland City Plans This original hand coloured copper

This original hand coloured copper plate engraved antique map of of the historical region of the Free County of Burgundy (Franche Comte de Bourgogne) of eastern France by Gerard Mercator was published by Henricus Hondius in the early 1628 French edition of Gerard Mercators Atlas

and his draughtsmanship caught the eye of the publisher Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi

Size: 18 1/4in x 12in (465mm x 305mm)

Forrest was a Scottish navigator who worked for the British East India Company

and by the age of thirty

1785 Rigobert Bonne Antique Map of Australia, Botany Bay, Tasmania & Queensland City Plans This original hand coloured copperTitle : Nlle. Galles Merid. ou Cote Orientale de la Nouvelle Hollande Par M Bonne Baie Botanique; Entree de la Riviere Endeavour; Esquisse de la Terre Van Diemen Size: 17in x 11 1 2in (430mm x 285mm) Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Date : 1785 Ref #: 93127 Description: This original hand coloured antique copper plate engraved map of the discoveries of Captain James Cook and the east coast of Australia in 1770 was published in 1785 edition of Atlas des