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Carte de l'Océanie dressée et dessinée sous la direction de Mr. J. G. Barbié du Bocage.

1852 Bocage Map of Australia and Polynesia

An uncommon and extremely attractive 1852 map of Oceania by J. G. Barbié du Bocage. Includes Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia and Malaysia. Australia is described as “pays inconnu” and alternately labeled “New Holland”. Hawaii shown as the “Sandwich Islands”. Features a beautiful frame style border. Prepared by J. G. Barbié du Bocage for publication as plate no. 25 in Maison Basset’s 1852 edition of the Atlas illustré.

Date
1852
Place
Oceania
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
3,000 × 2,210 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Carte de l'Océanie dressée et dessinée sous la direction de Mr. J. G. Barbié du Bocage." (1852). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1852_Bocage_Map_of_Australia_and_Polynesia_-_Geographicus_-_Oceanie-bocage-1852.jpg

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