Antique Map-NEW GUINEA-NEW BRITAIN-BISMARCK-Bonne-1785

Subject: Title: 'Carte des Decouvertes du Capite. Carteret dans la Nlle. Bretagne, avec une partie du passage du Capite. Cook par le Detroit de L'Endeavour et les decouvertes du Capite. Dampierre dans ces Parages. - Par M. Bonne, Ingenieur-Hydrographe de la Marine.' with inset maps titled: 'Baie de Bonthain, dans L'Isle des Celebes', 'Cote Sud de Mindanao', 'Banc de Sable dangereux', 'Isles de Joseph Freewill' and 'Nouvelle Irlande'. This nautical chart / map shows New Britain, the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from the island of New Guinea by the Dampier Strait, and from New Ireland by the St. George's Channel. The main towns of New Britain are Rabaul/Kokopo and Kimbe.

Condition: Fine; Recent hand colouring; General light age related toning; light staining in top half and boTtom margins; some small tears in margin and a few tiny pinsize holes; Seperated bottom middle fold backed.

Medium: Copperplate Engraving / etching on verge type hand laid paper with watermark; contemporary (old) hand colouring.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 46 x 31.5 cm. The image size is ca. 34.5 x 24 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 18.1 x 12.4 inch. The image size is ca. 13.6 x 9.4 inch.

Part Number: 8506

Location: B2-01

Description: This map originates from: 'Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780', written by Captain James Cook (1728-1779), published by M. Bonne in Paris, c. 1785.

Artists and Engravers: Cartographer: Rigobert Bonne, (1727 - 1795), was one of the most important cartographers of the late 18th century. He succeeded Jacques Nicolas Bellin as Royal Cartographer to France in the office of the Hydrographer at the French DepÃ´t de la Marine. Engraved by Gaspard Andre.