Nouvelle Hollande, Vaugondy 1756 - stretched canvas - ready to hang Nova Hollande who sailed with Pedro Fernandes

who sailed with Pedro Fernandes de Quiros

It is one of the earliest collectable maps of Australia to not include the Asian continent or the rest of the world

As with many maps by this famous mapmaker

The continent of Australia finally emerged on world maps following the charting expeditions of Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Royal Navy captain Mathew Flinders

Nouvelle Hollande, Vaugondy 1756 - stretched canvas - ready to hang Nova Hollande who sailed with Pedro FernandesEven in the mid eighteenth century the complete outline of the Australian continent was only guessed at. Southern Tasmania was firmly on the map but the connection between it and the known South West coast was fanciful. This map includes the coasts discovered and charted more than a century earlier by a series of Dutch navigators including Tasman (Van Deimen's Land, the West Coast of New Zealand) and Janzoon (West Coast of Cape York Peninsula). The