1854 Handtke & Flemming Antique Map of Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Mexico This original copper-plate engraved print

This original copper-plate engraved print by Jean Denis Barbie du Bocage was was published in the 1787 edition of Jean-Jacques Barthelemy famous Voyage du jeune Anarcharsis en Grece or Travels of Anacharsis the younger in Greece in 4 volumes

regrouped at Cape Town

It is his travels that provided the inspiration for Daniel Defoe\'s novel Robinson Crusoe

he received a shipment of exotic bird skins from the Himalayas

The map covers the whole of France including Corsica and parts of Spain

1854 Handtke & Flemming Antique Map of Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Mexico This original copper-plate engraved printTitle : Australien Date : 1854 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Ref: 31975 Size: 17in x 14in (430mm x 355mm) Description: This hand coloured original steel plate engraved antique highly detailed map of Australia, New Zealand, & The Pacific by Friedrich Handtke in 1854, was published in the Complete hand atlas of the recent description of the earth over all parts of the earth, Carl Flemming, Glougau. General Definitions: Paper thickness and quality: