NEW HOLLAND and the ASIATIC ISLES

This beautiful and bold map of Australasia shows the whole coastline accurately and makes up for the lack of detail with short notes like ‘smoke seen. Natives seen,. High trees’. Australia is called ‘New Holland’, even though Finden and others in earlier maps had begun to call it ‘Australia’. The New General Atlas was one of the most accurate and best produced atlases of the day. John Thomson’s ‘County Atlas of Scotland’ is generally considered the finest of its kind.

Fine condition.