Carte de L'Australe ou Nouvelle Hollande dresée d'aprés les dernier document Anglais

Handsome large format French sea chart of Australia.



The map is rich with detail. The sounding depths and coral reefs are marked with precision along the coastline of the Australian continent, so too are the rivers, lakes and mountains, however the interior of the map remains largely blank.
The mountainous topography and the Great Barrier Reef along the West Coast is particularly impressive. Lighthouses have been marked with yellow dots.



In the centre of the map, a sizable inset of the entrance to Port Philip in Melbourne. This notes the hydrographical source for this inset as M. M. Simonds & Henry, dated 1836 and corrected to 1860. It includes navigational notes for sailors on entering the Port, how they should approach and the alignment of the lighthouses.
In the lower right corner, an inset map of Tasmania.



The title of the map has been finished in curious perhaps overzealous mixture of elegant script, Latinidad, Blackletter and sans serif fonts.


Manuscript markings, otherwise uncoloured. (SL) [AUNZ2861]