Simon Drake's Collection of Antique Maps of Australia
Note: This is not a professional collection and none of these maps are for sale.
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- Simon Drake
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Both Hemispheres
Date: Circa 1800 (1795 - 1820)
Language: German
Description: Both Hemispheres (West and East) displaying the explorations of Captain Cook.
Engraver: Franz von P. Reißer
Publisher: Tranquillo Mollo and Company
Size: 79cm x 52cm
'Die beyden Halbkugeln'
Die beyden Halbkugeln (westliche Halbkugel, oestliche Halbkugel) samt den neuesten Entdeckungen -- Anzeige der drey Reisen Cooks / Franz von P. Reißer [Stecher]
Map Maker: F. Reißer
Verlag: T. Mollo und Compagnie (Tranquillo Mollo and Company), Wien
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Le Grande Ocean circa 1806
Date: 1806
Language: French
Description: The Pacific Ocean from a French perspective, e.g. At the time they thought it would make a nice addition to Bonaparte's European conquests?
Map Maker: Eustache Herisson (b. 1759) and C. B Glot
Size: 25cm x 20cm |
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Australia and Pacific 1844
Date: 1844
Language: German
Description: Overview of the Pacific, including Australia.
From: Sohr's Hand-Atlas 1844
Publisher: Carl Flemming, Glogau (Germany)
Size: 35cm x 30cm |
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Australland 1844
Date: 1844
Language: German
Description: Shows the progress of early discoveries and state borders. Prominent are the great white swathes of unexplored lands in Australia.
From: Sohr's Hand-Atlas 1844
Publisher: Carl Flemming, Glogau (Germany)
Size: 35cm x 30cm |
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Australia 1846
Date: 1846
Description: A finely detailed map of Australia.
Map Maker: W. Hughes, 1846
Publisher: A & C Black
Medium: Steel Engraving
Size: 27cm x 22.4cm |
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Australia and Polynesia 1855
Date: Circa 1855
Language: German
Description: Shows the different Colonies and years they were discovered. Also reflects a time when Germany had colonies in what is now northern Papua New Guinea.
From: K.v. Spruner's Historic Atlas
Publisher: Justus Perthes, Gotha
Size: 45cm x 37cm |
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Australien 1866
Date: 1866
Language: German
Description: Shows the routes and discoveries by prominent explorers up to 1866.
Engravers: H. Alt and Schroder
Publisher: Justus Perthes, Gotha
Size: 45cm x 37cm |
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Oceanien 1896
Date: 1896
Language: German
Description: The Pacific, vast and mostly explored, end of the 19th Century.
Map Maker: F.A. Brockhaus, Anstalt, Leipzig, 1896
Size: 29cm x 23cm |
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Australia and States
Language: English
Description: Standard mini-atlas maps of Australia and states.
Date: Circa 1900
Purchase: 10 pound, London, 2010
Map Maker: W & A.K Johnston Limited, Edinburgh & London
Sizes: 18cm x 12cm / 12cm x 18cm
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I have not told half of what I saw. -- Marco Polo