Description
Large scale c.19th up to date world map on Mercator’s Projection.
The charting of Australia is shown only three years after the accounts of Nicholas Baudin’s epic voyage of discovery in the ships the Naturalist, Geographe and Casuarina were published 1807 which contained the first printed chart of Australia. The map of Australia contained in Baudin’s accounts was also printed by Poirson who had accessed to a number of voyages that return from explorations in the Pacific and Australia. Also included is Bass Strait.
