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The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea - Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts. by George Collingridge
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In this short chapter, before leaving the subject of the old manuscript
maps of Australia, and devoting the remaining pages of my book to actual
voyages of discovery, I shall refer once more to the importance of the
Lusitano-Spanish planispheres of the Dieppese school of cartography*
because most of those documents, becoming the property of French
map-makers, were used in various endeavours which were made to induce
European sovereigns to colonize the Great South Land.

[*Most of these maps were made at Dieppe; all of them were made in the
north of France.]

In the preceding pages I have only described the most important of these
manuscript charts. The following is the list in chronological order of
all the specimens known to exist:--


1. The Dauphin Chart 1530-36
2. N. Valiard's (so-called) 1539-49
3. Jean Roze's 1542
4. The Henri II. (of France) 1546
5. P. Desceliers' 1550
6. G. Le Testu's 1555
7. Desliens' 1566



CHAPTER IX.

MENDANA AND SARMIENTO DISCOVER THE SOLOMONS.
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