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![[KINCAID, Alexander; and John ANDREWS] New Holland & the adjacent islands, agreeable to the latest discoveries.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/23279_1H.jpg?fit=3280%2C2929&ssl=1)
One of the last maps to show Tasmania still connected to the Australian mainland
New Holland & the adjacent islands, agreeable to the latest discoveries.
[Edinburgh,
Alexander Kincaid,
1799].
Engraved map with fine hand-colour in full.
184 by 235mm (7.25 by 9.25 inches).
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notes:
One of the last maps of the eighteenth-century to focus on Australia, one of the last to show Tasmania still connected to the Australian mainland before the discoveries of Bass and Flinders. With an inset map of Sydney Harbour. Published in Kincaid's reprint of Guthrie's 'A New Geographical Commercial and Historical Grammar' (1799).
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bibliography:
Literature: Tooley, 'The Mapping of Australia', 800.
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