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Important early map of Australia, parts of New Guinea, Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand, etc. Tooley writes: "A reissue of Thevenot's map of 1663 but with title as above within cartouche bottom right [actually left]. Bowen inserts the Tropic of Capricorn and two long legends. The first is very exactly copied from the original... nothing is marked here but what has been Actually discovered which is the reason of the white space between New Holland and New Zealand, and again between New Zealand and New Guinea... The second legend is a long laudatory account of the presumed riches of Terra Australia. Issued in John Harris's Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, or a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels, London, 1744." Tooley, Australia, 241, Plate 12.