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Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula [cartographic material] / Auct. Guiljelmo Blaeuw. Published:  Amsterodami : Gulielmus Blaeuw Sub Signo Solarii deaurati, [1635].

Description: 1 map : hand col. ; 29 x 43 cm.  Scale [ca. 1: 90 000 000] Mercator proj. (W 180°00' 00"--E180°00' 00"/N 90°00' 00"--S 90°00' 00).

"SEPTEM PLANETAE SEPTEM MIRABILIA MUNDI Quatuor elementa Quatuor anni tempestates".

Goulburn, New South Wales [cartographic material] : [a fire insurance map] / [Mahlstedt & Gee, surveyors & draughtsmen] [Sydney, N.S.W.? : Mahlstedt and Gee, 1886?]

Scale [1: 720] 1 in. = 60 feet (E 149°43'10"/S 34°45'30") 1 map on 3 sheets : col., mounted on linen ; each 67 x 102 cm.

Map shows area from Nicholson St. to Addison St., from Cowper St. to Sloane St. Shows type of buildings (brick, wood, iron) with base outlines and notes on types of roofs, no. of storeys. Measurements are in feet. Street names. Names of occupiers or owners, shops, public buildings, hotels, schools, with names. 

Collaroy Park Estate Narrabeen. No boundaries shown. 7th Oct. 1912. Richardson and Wrench LTD. Auctioneers. 

Part of [Collaroy subdivision plans] [cartographic material] Scales differ (E 151°17'04"--E 151°17'04"/S 33°42'54"--S 33°43'54").

The State Library holds thousands of suburban and town subdivision plans.  These are mostly real estate agents’ advertisements or surveyors’ sketches created between the 1880s and 1930s as large estates were broken up and sold. Many of them are beautiful pictorial records of the subdivision.  

They were often pasted onto telegraph poles and placed in shop fronts to entice people to the auction.  Some are annotated with sales prices and block sizes. They are a great source for local and family historians, heritage consultants and those interested in the history of their house.

A map of Port Jackson, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales by Adrian Feint. Published in The home annual, 1st October, 1935.

1 map : col. ; 24 x 41 cm, on sheet 29 x 44 cm. Publisher: Art in Australia, Sydney.

Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula [cartographic material] / by Ioannes van Keulen.

Isometrical view of the settlement, Norfolk Island [after 1847] / drawn by Don Docker, 16 June 1923

Description: 1 drawing: ink, watercolour; 57 x 90 cm.  Signed and dated on mount lower left 'Don Docker June 16 1923'. Inscribed in pencil on back of picture: 'Second Settlement. Date 1847+ fixed by the gate in no. 20, the New Gaol, called Gallows Gate. Unless there was a gate exactly similar before this, fixes the date 1847, or later, as Gallows Gate was built then. Information supplied by Mr Heath of Norfolk Island', 'Settlement Norfolk Island', 'Copied from this edge of picture Don Docker June 15 1923'.

Craigie's road and municipal map of Sydney & suburbs [cartographic material ] /   compiled, drawn & published by Kenneth Craigie & Co. Published:  Sydney : Craigie, [1940].  1 map : col. ; 82 x 71 cm. folded to 21 x 14 cm.

A map of the southern hemi-sphere shewing the discoveries made in the Southern Ocean up to 1770 [cartographic material] / James Cook.

Scale [ca. 1:70 000 000] Stereographic proj. (W 180°--E 180°/S 0°--S 90°)  1 ms. map : col. ; polar hemisphere 30.4 cm. in diam. on sheet 39.9 x 51 cm. Published: 1772.

Original manuscript in the handwriting of Captain Cook relating to his second voyage, 6 Feb. 1772. On verso: "Captain Cook's opinion of the rout the Resolution and Adventure ought to take to explore the Southern Ocean, humbly submitted to the consideration of the Earl of Sandwich." A zoomable version may be seen here. 

South polar map showing tracks of Tasman 1642, Bougainville 1767, Captain Samuel Wallis (HMS Dolphin 1766-68) and the Endeavour.

"Ships tracks to and from India". "Gulf of St. Sebastian - very doubtful". "Cap Circumsion [thus]". Captain Cook's proposed route of the Resolution and Adventure marked in yellow. Shows 'New Zeland' and New Holland.