Nouvelle Hollande, Lapie, Paris 1811 - hand-coloured - framed print Size:A4 21x29.7 cm / 8x12″ He was continuing a search

He was continuing a search for the southern continent that had lasted centuries and would not be dampened until Cook’s second voyage in the far southern Pacific proved that no such great continent existed

Southern Tasmania was firmly on the map but the connection between it and the known South West coast was fanciful

and the hand-colouring is fine and sensitively rendered

As with many maps by this famous mapmaker

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

Nouvelle Hollande, Lapie, Paris 1811 - hand-coloured - framed print Size:A4 21x29.7 cm / 8x12″ He was continuing a searchThe continent of Australia finally emerged on world maps following the charting expeditions of Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Royal Navy captain Mathew Flinders. This map is based on the Freycinet map, the first full map of the Australian continent, published by the French in the year 1811, following the Baudin expedition of 1800 1803. It now shows all the latest discoveries: Bass Strait (Detroit de Bas), Torres Strait (Detroit de Torres), Spencers Gulf