Almost exactly 200 years after Captain Cook embarked on this third voyage of discovery, Beat Knoblauch arrived in Australia, and bought his first antique print of Sydney. Now, nearly 50 years, and hundreds and hundreds of images of Sydney later, Daniel Crouch Rare Books presents “The Finest Harbour in the World”: The Knoblauch Collection of Printed Views of Sydney 1788–1938.
By UINTED STATES NAVY HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE, May 1881. Cor[rections] by Notices to Jan. 1884 (1884-88).
By HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE, 1st Decr. 1869. Large corrections Jan. 1876, Feby. 1892.
By HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE; BLACKWOOD, Captain F[rancis] P[rice] et al, Decr. 19th 1860. Large corrections Aug 1880. March 1887. August 1889. April 1890.
By HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE, 15th June 1881. Large corrections May 1882.
By HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE; BLACKWOOD, Captain F[rancis] P[rice], 20th Feby. 1856. Large corrections Aug. 72, Apr. 74, May 1893.
By HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE; STANLEY, Captain O[wen], March 29th 1843. Large corrections Aug. 76, Aug. 79, Oct. 1888.
By SYMONDS, Lieutenant T[homas] M[atthew]; HENRY, Lieutenant H. R.; SHORTLAND, F[rederick], June 18th 1838.
Rare final state – materially different
“The capabilities of this most important possession to the British interest are too numerous for the undersigned here to set forth” (Peel)
First issue of the first commercially available map to show Dutch discoveries along the northern coastline of Australia
The first map to focus on “Australia”
With the addition of the “Isles de Cooke”
Coronelli’s map of Asia identifying Australia with Marco Polo’s “Lochac”
“The least known to Europe of any of the Eastern Countries”
Flinders’s survey of central New South Wales
With the tracks of all the explorers
Naming “Australia”
Gastaldi’s seminal map of Southeast Asia
An early bird’s-eye view of Sydney
Following in Louis Freycinet’s “footsteps”
Southern entrance to the Sunda Strait
“A work of conscious art” (Firzhardinge)
The Bali Strait
Yeakell and Gardner’s landmark map of Sussex
The northern Malacca Strait
“I. de Jatana ou de Saincapour”
Cook’s Christmas
The Bangka Strait
The Great Barrier Reef
A comprehensive northern coastline of Australia
“The first separate map of any Southeast Asia island based on actual observation” (Suarez)
The Indies Shall Be Freed!
The explosive island of Krakatoa 

