It was created more than 100 years before Captain James Cook sailed uncharted parts of the Pacific Ocean, and completed the map of Australia's coast. Only a handful of complete copies of Blaeu's ...

From mud maps to early town planning, historical charts of Australia’s beginnings are being digitised. THE MOST INTRIGUING ITEM in the National Library of Australia’s (NLA) vast map collection isn’t ...

According to Sotheby’s, it is the very first map to call Australia “Nova Hollandia” and is “extremely rare”. “The map is possibly one of two known surviving copies in this state.