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| BELLIN, J.N. - Carte des Isles Philippines.. Paris 1752, Coloured.. 210x157mm. In very good condition. Fine map of the northern islands of the Philippines. Jaques Nicolaas Bellin (1703-1772) was one of the most important and proficient French cartographers of the mid-eighteenth century. He was appointed the first Ingenieur Hydrographe de la Marine, and also Official Hydrographer to the French King...
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| COOK, Captain James. - Banc de Sable dangereux / Isles de Jofeph Freewill / L'Extrémité Méridionale de Mindanao. [Tome I. Pl. 15.] Paris, 1774, Uncoloured.. 176x182mm. With vertical center fold as issued. Left margin Good condition. Three charts on one page showing the southern tip of Mindanao. This map is taken from the first French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellement régnante pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphère méridional...
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| D'APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE. - The Sooloo Archipelago, laid down from observations in 1761, 1762, 1763, & 1764 by Dakymple. / Toolyan Bay. / Sooloo Road. Paris, ca 1775, Uncoloured.. 460x600mm. Good impression, printed on heavy paper. Two marginal wormholes in lower margin, not affecting engraved area. Most important milestone chart based upon the surveys made from navigational surveys in 1761-64 by Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808]. He was the first hydrographer of the British Admiralty and the first writer in English to use the word Australia". He used the term to refer to the whole South P...
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