3437 Cassini, Giovanni Maria: La Nuova Zelanda 1789

English
New Zealand
Cassini, Giovanni Maria
dat. 1789
copperplate engraving
Coloured
34,8 x 47,7 cm
ORIGINAL

This is one of the rarest and most sort after maps of New Zealand. It is the Italaian verision of Capitin Cooks circumnavigation of the islands in 1769-1770. This version was published in Rome and shows The Banks Penensulia as a Island and Stewart Island as connected to the South Island. The top right has the title cartouche which shows the European explorers and Idignous Marori. Their ship ‘The Endevour’ is shown in the background. Cooks voyage is shown oin the map with the dotted outline.

Deutsch
Neuseeland
Cassini, Giovanni Maria
dat. 1789
Kupferstich
Altkoloriert
34,8 x 47,7 cm
ORIGINALKARTE