Author: EISLER, WILLIAM; SMITH, BERNARD.
Title: Terra Australis. The Furthest Shore
Description: First Edition; Lge. 4to; pp. 240; numerous b/w and colour illustrations throughout, catalogue, bibliography, notes on the contributors, photographic credits, lenders to the exhibition, acknowledgements, selected index; cloth binding, original printed wrapper bound in, cloth rubbed, otherwise a very good copy. (Sydney), International Cultural Corporation of Australia, (1988) Bookplate of G. & N. Ingleton on front endpaper. Many wonderful illustrations including woodcut from 1508, Natives of Nomuka [ Tonga ] from Abel Tasmans Journal, A Wallaby by Cornelis de Bruyn 1711, and Natives of New Zealand map of the world by Sanson 1678 showing coast of Australia from Adelaide to Darwin parts of Antarctica, Johannes Vingboons, Victor Victorszoon Coastal views of western Australia 1697, Mathew Flinders Chart of Terra Australia 1804 and many more.

Keywords: gea art Australian art history general discovery exploration Mathew Flinders Victor Victorszoo Johannes Vingboons Sanson Cornelis bicentennial