Djurberg, Daniel (sold)

This important 1789 map of Australia and Polynesia is one of the very few maps to use the indigenous terms for Australia and New Zealand: Ulimaora (Australia), Tavai-Poenammoo (New Zealand South Island) and Ealiei-Nomauwe (North Island). All three of these ... (more details)

This important 1789 Djurberg map of Australia and Polynesia is one of the very few maps to use the Indigenous terms for Australia and New Zealand: Ulimaora (Australia), Tavai-Poenammoo (New Zealand South Island), and Ealiei-Nomauwe (North Island). All three of these terms are extracted from accounts of Capt. James Cook's epic voyages of discovery. (more details)

This important 1796 map of Australia and Polynesia is one of the very few maps to use the indigenous terms for Australia and New Zealand: Ulimaora (Australia), Tavai-Poenammoo (New Zealand South Island) and Ealiei-Nomauwe (North Island). All three of these terms are extracted from accounts of Cook's voyages. (more details)

This is Johannes Walch's 1802 map of Australia and Oceania, including the East Indies, the Philippines, China, Korea, and Japan. Overall, Walch presents the whole as a 'Fifth part of the world,' extending further the terminology established by Ptolemy, in which the world - formerly composed of the three parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa - had already been amended with America, the Fourth part of the world. The map extends from Sumatra and Cambodia, eastwards to include Hawaii and the Marquesas Islands. It was printed in order to celebrate the exploration of the region of the prior two centuries, most particularly those of Captain James Cook (1728 - 1779). The map includes the Dutch voyages of the 17th century, notably Abel Tasman's (1603 - 1659) voyage in 1642, and shows the tracks of Captains Marshall, Byron, Wallis, Bougainville. The map is dominated by the tracks of Cook, however, underscoring the achievements of that explorer. The tracks of all three of Cook's great voyages appear here: his 1768-1771 observation of the Transit of Venus at Tahiti; his 1772-5 search for the legendary great southern continent, (during which he crossed the Antarctic Circle three times) and his fatal third expedition to seek the Northwest Passage, during which he met his end in Hawaii. New Zealand is shown as two islands with with its shores charted as per Cook's first voyage. Maori placenames are used, represented with phonetic spellings. Australia is shown complete (albeit with a 'coast never traveled' noted in German.) (more details)