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Preliminary data and Chapter 1"

Early New Zealand Printed Maps
Preliminary data

and

 Chapter 1

Edited

By
 

Brian Hooker

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A note about illustrations of maps: The illustrations are provided as a guide only - magnification is not always practicable  with early maps that are often faded or smudgy. Some of the images have been copied from small photographs of large maps. However, in some examples enlargement in sections has been possible and a note in the caption indicates this.

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Editor's Preface

The aim of this work is to provide a catalogue and general review of early New Zealand printed maps, published up to the middle of the 1840s. However, I have not selected a definite cut-off year and some interesting maps which were first published at a later date are listed.

For the period 1644/45 to 1770, a selection of the more influential world and Pacific maps, issued after the time Tasman’s data became available, but before Cook’s charts reached print, have been included. From 1770, only maps which wholly or partly portray New Zealand are listed or mentioned.

In selecting the illustrations I have aimed at presenting maps or portions of maps in which the maximum amount of information is distinct and meaningful. Coastal profiles and views in insets were an important aid to early navigators and several examples are illustrated.

The object of the “Remarks on the illustrations,” which accompany the enlarged illustrations in each chapter, is to draw attention to particular points of interest.

I have made only a few references to colour. Although some New Zealand maps were issued in colour, many maps in present-day collections have been coloured in recent times. Whether a map displays original or recently applied colour, its appeal is enhanced with colour and the value is generally unaffected if the colour has been expertly applied. Some maps were hand-tinted at the time of publication and the different colours relate to various features in the maps.

Part of the fascination of collecting and studying old maps is the search for previously unknown editions or issues. I have included details of a number of maps not previously mentioned in cartographic literature but no claim is made that my lists are complete.

A study of early New Zealand printed maps provides in effect the story of the discovery and coastal surveying of New Zealand from 1642 to the 1840s. This page and the parts that follow are a cache of cartographic treasures relating to early New Zealand printed maps. For the first time early New Zealand printed maps have been assembled into categories starting with maps derived from Abel Tasman's discoveries. Subsequent chapters list and comment on maps derived from manuscripts prepared by later explorers and surveyors: Cook, de Surville, Vancouver, Marion Dufresne, Duperrey, Dumont d'Urville, Kent, Herd, Wing, and others. Map publishers are given special attention; names like Blaeu, Wyld, Arrowsmith, Tallis, the Hydrographic Office, London, and the Dépôt-général de la Marine, Paris.

If this web site helps the beginner, interests the general reader, or assists the collector by providing some quickly needed information I will feel that my work has served its purpose.

I wish to express my recognition of all previous writers on New Zealand maps; the bibliographies which follow each chapter, provide details of these earlier researchers.

B. H. May 2000 - revised December 2006.

Guide to entries through prefixes
Prefix followed by Chapter. 

This page contains preliminary data and Chapter 1 of Early New Zealand Printed Maps. For other chapters return to the list via Contents above and the title in Section B or scroll down to the end of this page to go direct to Chapter 2.

Summary of sub-headings and illustrations

Chapter 1 - New Zealand’s western littoral in maps

1.1 (detail from) J. van Loon, Pacific Ocean, Amsterdam, 1661.
1.2 (detail from) W. J. Blaeu - J. Blaeu, World Map, Amsterdam, 1619 – c.1650.
1.3 (detail from) W. J. Blaeu - J. Blaeu, Terrestrial Globe (68 cm.), Amsterdam, 1617-1647/48.
1.4 (detail from) J. Blaeu, World Map, Amsterdam, 1648.
1.5 (detail from) J. Blaeu, World Map, Amsterdam, 1660.
1.6 (detail from) P. Goos, Pacific Chart, Amsterdam, 1666.
1.7 F. Valentijn, Map of South-east Indian Ocean and South-west Pacific Ocean, Amsterdam, 1726.
1.8 F. Valentijn, Map of part of the West Coast of New Zealand, Amsterdam, 1726.
1.9 (detail from) J. Meurs, Map of America, Amsterdam, 1671.
1.10 (detail from) J. Luyts (after Sanson), World Map, Utrecht, 1692.
1.11 (detail from) A. Dalrymple, Chart of the South Pacific Ocean, London, 1767.
1.12 (detail from) T. Jefferys, Chart of the South Pacific Ocean, London, 1753.
1.13 M. Thévenot, Map of the South-west Pacific Ocean, Paris, 1663.
1.13a. Bellin (South-west Pacific map) 1753.
1.14 Robert de Vaugondy, Map of the South-west Pacific Ocean, Paris, 1756.
1.15 (detail from) Guillaume de Lisle, Terrestrial globe (gores), Paris, 1700.
1.16 V. M. Coronelli, Map of part of the West Coast of New Zealand, Venice, 1691.

Chapter 2 - Cook’s charts and their progeny

2.1 J. Cook, Chart of New Zealand, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1772 (1773).
2.2 J. Cook, Map of Hauraki Gulf and Coromandel Peninsula, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1773.
2.3 J. Cook, Map of Tolaga Bay, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1773.
2.4 J. Cook, Chart of Cook Strait, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1773.
2.5 J. Cook, Sketch of Dusky Sound with an inset plan of Pickersgill Harbour, St Petersburg, c. 1796.
2.6 J. Cook, Chart of New Zealand, (W. Wales), London, 1788.
2.7 J. Cook, Chart of New Zealand, Venice: A. Zatta, 1778.
2.8 J. Cook, Chart of New Zealand, Rome: G. Cassini, 1798.

Chapter 3 - Vancouver’s charts

3.1 G. Vancouver, Sketch of Dusky Sound with an inset plan of Pickersgill Harbour, London, 1798.

Chapter 4 - British hydrographic charts

4.1 (detail from) J.F.M. de Surville, Plan of Doubtless Bay, 1781 - c. 1804. (no. 1089)
4.2 J.R. Kent et al., Plan of Hokianga Harbour, 1833. (no. 1091)
4.3 T. Barnett, Plan of Port Nicholson, 1840. (no. 1273)
4.4 O. Stanley, Chart of Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula, 1845. (no. 1694).
4.5 (detail from) W. L. Edwardson et al., Chart of South-west New Zealand, London, 1833. (section of Chart no. 1099)
4.6 Cook, Vancouver, Edwardson et al., Chart of Dusky Sound & Chalky Inlet, 1833. (section of Chart no. 1099)
4.7 D.F. Bauzà, Plan of Doubtful Sound, 1840. (section of Chart no. 1281)

Chapter 5 - 18th and 19th century French charts

5.1 A.B.M. Le Jar Duclesmeur, Plan of Spirits Bay, Paris, 1783.
5.2 (detail from) C. F. Beautemps-Beaupré, Chart of Northern Coast of New Zealand and Three Kings Islands, Paris, 1807. (section of Atlas-map 16)
5.3 J. de Blosseville, Map of North Island and northern part of the South Island, Paris, 1826.
5.4 Dumont d'Urville and P.E. Guilbert, Chart of Tasman Bay, Paris, 1833. (Chart no. 749)
5.5 (detail from) Dumont d’Urville & V. C. Lottin, Chart of part of Northland, Paris, 1833. (Atlas-map no21.)
5.6 (detail from) A. Bérard, Chart of Banks Peninsula, Dépôt-général de la Marine, Paris, 1848 (Chart no. 1164).
5.7 J.S.C. Dumont d’Urville, Map of New Zealand, Paris, 1833.

Chapter 6 - Maps in marine atlases and insets in Pacific charts

6.1 W. Stewart, Chart of Port Pegasus, London: Whittle & Laurie, 1815.
6.2 J. R. Kent, Plan of part of the Waitemata Harbour, London: J.W. Norie c. 1838.
6.3 J. Herd, Plan of Hokianga Harbour, London: J.W. Norie, c. 1838.
6.4 J. Cook et al., Plan of the Bay of Islands, London: Robert H. Laurie, 1822.

Chapter 7 - Missionary maps

7.1 “Chart of Northland," in, Missionary Register, London, 1822.
7.2 “Plan of the Bay of Islands," in, Missionary Register, London, 1822.

Chapter 8 - Maps by James Wyld

8.1 T. McDonnell, Chart of New Zealand with 4 inset plans (1st state - 1st ed.), London: J. Wyld, 1834.
8.2 “Plan of Victoria, Bay of Islands” (inset map in, T. McDonnell, Chart of New Zealand with 7 inset plans, London: J. Wyld, 1834-43 - 3rd ed.).
8.3 (detail from) T. McDonnell et al., Chart of Kaipara Harbour, London: J. Wyld, c. 1840.

Chapter 9 - Maps by John Arrowsmith

9.1 J. Arrowsmith, Map of New Zealand, London: Black & Armstrong, 1837.
9.2 J. Arrowsmith, Map of New Zealand with an inset map of the world, London, 1841.

Chapter 10 - Maps in British Parliamentary Papers

10.1 Plan of part of Central Auckland, London, 1842 (BPP).

Chapter 11 - Maps by Smith, Elder & Co., and maps in The New Zealand Journal.

11.1 Plan of Nelson Haven (inset map in, Charles Heaphy, Map of Cook Strait, London, 1842).

Chapter 12 - Additional maps first published before 1840 in atlases and journals

12.1 S.D.U.K. Map of New Zealand (1st state), London, 1838.

Chapter 13 - Colonial lithographers as mapmakers

13.1 R. Clint, Map of the northern part of New Zealand, Sydney, 1839.

Chapter 14 - New maps published 1840-1845

14.1 W. & A. K. Johnston, Map of the District of Otago, Edinburgh, 1845.

Preliminary data

Orthography and capitals

Titles of maps are the same as in the maps but some capital letters have been reduced to lower case.

Single-sheet maps

The New Zealand maps are single-sheet maps or a section of a single-sheet map.

Edition, state, issue

The terms “edition” and “state” relate to the series of copper plates used for producing maps. Maps printed from different copper plates but bearing similarities belong to different editions. Maps printed before and after alterations to a copper plate are termed as being different states. The term “issue” is generally interchangeable with state.

Sizes

Sizes are of the printed area in millimetres, height before width.

Copper plate engravings, steel engravings, and lithographs

Maps not noted as lithographs or steel engravings are copper engravings.

Abbreviations

BA  British Admiralty
BH1 The printed version of this title
BPP British Parliamentary Papers
c. circa
d. died
et al. et alia (and other people)
fl.  floruit (flourished)
JRGS Journal of the Royal Geographical Society
lith.  lithograph

Sub-headings

Information given in map titles and legends is not always historically and geographically correct; nor do names always coincide with present-day terms. If the information is known, each sub-heading following Chapter 1, gives the name of the surveyor or publisher (and in some examples the place of publication), the year of the survey, the area, and the year of publication. The information is clarified in a note preceding each chapter.

New Zealand’s western littoral in maps

The purpose of this chapter is to list and discuss some of the more important maps printed after Abel Janszoon Tasman’s 1642-43 discovery of parts of New Zealand’s western littoral, but before 1773, when James Cook’s chart of New Zealand reached publication. A portion of New Zealand is portrayed in a large number of maps and globes published during the period, 1644/1645 to the early 1770s.

Since Tasman thought it possible that this country was part of Staten Land, already known at the southern tip of South America, he named his discovery Staten Landt and this name soon appeared in printed maps beside the western coastline. (fn.  Staten Land, at the southern tip of South America, discovered and named by the Dutch explorer Jacob Le Maire, in 1616, is portrayed in modern maps and named Staten Island. Another Dutch explorer, Hendrik Brouwer demonstrated in 1643, that Le Maire’s Staten Land was an island. However, within a short time the name was changed to New Zealand.)

At the time of Tasman’s discovery, the Dutch held the lead in map publishing. During the eighteenth century leadership in cartography passed from Amsterdam to France. From about the time of the first publication of Cook’s charts, supremacy in map publishing was gained by England.

Maps inscribed with the name Staten Landt

A group of seventeenth-century printed maps which are inscribed with the name Staten Landt provide proof that these maps or their antecedents were published before the name Zeelandia Nova was devised in 1647 or 1648. Maps in this group are also distinguished by the fact that New Zealand’s western littoral is placed about ten degrees too far west. The faulty placement relates to the fact that a Dutch cartographer was unaware of the prime meridian used by Tasman when he reckoned longitude, and assumed it was a line passing over the islands of São Miguel and Santa Maria in the Azores, whereas Tasman reckoned longitude from the Peak of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

Tenerife was regarded as being ten degrees further east in the period under review. It seems likely that a publisher in the Netherlands, surreptitiously obtained a chart or charts from an unofficial source in the Dutch East Indies, soon after Tasman’s expedition returned to Batavia in June 1643. Some printed maps in the Staten Landt group and their authors are listed in the next paragraph.

Jacob Aertsz Colom (1599-1673), Zuyd-Zee, Amsterdam, 1657 (detail Illustrated below - figure DYD1.1);  Johannes van Loon (c. 1611-86) illustrated below - figure DYD1.2), Pascaerte Vande Zvyd-Zee, 1661;  Hugo Allard (1648-1709), Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula, Amsterdam, c.1660; Johannes van Keulen (1654-1754), Pascaert vande Zuyd Zee, Amsterdam, 1685.

The origin of the name New Zealand and maps published by Blaeu

Abel Janszoon Tasman’s voyage of 1642-43 was sponsored by the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC), founded in 1602. The Company’s eastern headquarters were established on the site of Jakarta, which was seized and renamed Batavia by the Dutch, in 1619.

From November 1638, the position of official cartographer to the Company was held by the Amsterdam map-maker Joan Blaeu, head of one of the most celebrated map-publishing firms of the seventeenth century. His father, W. J. Blaeu had held the appointment from 1633 until his death in 1638. Access to the Company’s confidential records enabled Joan Blaeu to update his maps and globes with Tasman’s data as it became available.

Until evidence of the group of maps with the printed name Staten Landt, was brought to light in recent times, scholars generally agreed that the first portrayal of part of New Zealand with names occurred in W. J. Blaeu’s revised world map of 1619. This wall-map titled  Nova Et Accurata Terrarum Orbis Tabula Ex Optimis Quibusq. In Hoc Genere Auctorib. Desumpta, Et Duob Planisphaeris Delineata. auct. Gul: Ianssonio 1619, was updated by Joan Blaeu to include data relating to Tasman’s discoveries in the south-west Pacific. (Detail showing New Zealand below) The only surviving copy is preserved in the Maritiem Museum “Prince Hendrik”, Rotterdam. However, it is likely that maps portraying part of New Zealand with the name Staten Landt and place-names, were in circulation two or three years  before the name Zeelandia Nova was first used by Blaeu.
 

In 1643, a Dutch navigator Hendrik Brouwer, circumnavigated Staten Land at the south of South America proving it was unconnected with Tasman’s Staten Landt, but it is not necessary to believe that this discovery was the reason for the change of name from Staten Landt to Zeelandia Nova. Almost certainly Joan Blaeu devised the name Zeelandia Nova, in consultation with an official or officials of the Dutch East India Company at Amsterdam, but no records have been found which clarify the circumstances surrounding the renaming. It is probable that Blaeu provided the name Zeelandia Nova on an analogy with the name Hollandia Nova given for the putative Australian continent at the same time. Geographers and explorers hypothesised that a large southern continent existed and Zeelandia Nova’s discovered west coast no doubt added weight to the idea that another large continent stretched eastward across the southern Pacific Ocean. Obviously part of the motive in selecting the name Zeelandia Nova was to compliment the province of Zeeland, which was the seat of the second most important chamber of the Company but no resolution or contemporary reference has been located which confirms this point. ( The primary assembly or board was the Amsterdam Chamber.)
 

Blaeu published other maps which include the name Zeelandia Nova or Zelandia Nova, and place-names, beside part of the western coastline. Descriptions and titles follow: a world wall-map dedicated to the Spanish Ambassador at the Peace Conference of Westphalia, Caspara de Bracamonte, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula, Amsterdam, 1648 (Detail below figure DYD1.5.); a large  map of south-east Asia: Archipelagus Orientalis Sive Asiaticus, Amsterdam, 1659; and also the map mentioned in the next paragraph.
 

Joan Blaeu published a folio-size world map: Nova et Accvratissima Totivs Terrarvm Orbis Tabvla, usually found in Blaeu’s Atlas maior (Amsterdam, 1662).

Additional Dutch maps published previous to 1770

The name of the publisher, who first prepared a printed map with the name Staten Landt, is unknown. (fn.3a.This question has been freshly examined - see my page NAA6 under Section N Home Page - : go via Contents above and also  to "The earliest cartographic representation and name for New Zealand in a printed map" in Section K.) However, from about 1648 several Dutch publishers modelled their maps, in the south-west Pacific area, on either Blaeu’s maps or maps containing the surreptitiously-obtained data, or on a combination of both. Brief details of some world and Pacific maps, published in Amsterdam, which were modelled mainly on Blaeu’s maps in the south-west Pacific area follow.

Cornelis Danckert II (1603-56), Nova Orbis Terrarum Tabula. Emendata a I. Danckers, c. 1680.

Hendrik Doncker (1626-99), Pas-Caart van Zuyd-Zee, 1659; this chart was issued in a sea-atlas. Remarks:  Doncker’s chart is the earliest printed work to include a section assigned to a part of New Zealand.

Pieter Goos (c. 1616-75),  Orbis Terrarum Nova Et Accuratissima Tabula auctore Petro Goos,  and a Pacific chart, Pascaerte Vande Zvyd Zee, 1666 (Detail in Figure DYD1-7  below. ); these maps were issued in various editions of a sea-atlas.

Jan Jansson (1588-1664), southern hemisphere map - Polus Antarcticus, 1657;  this map was first printed from a copper plate engraved by Henricus Hondius, in 1639. In the course of time, the plate passed from Jansson to de Wit, and then to another Amsterdam publisher, Schenk and Valk who continued to print the map well into the eighteenth century.

Pieter Mortier (1661-1711), published a world map titled  Carte Génerale De Toutes Les Costes Du Monde, Et Les Pays Nouvellement Découvert, ..., Amsterdam, 1693.

François Valentijn (1666 -1727), published six maps and views relating to New Zealand; these are found in Valentijn’s six-volume work Oud en nieuw oost-indien (Dordrecht & Amsterdam, 1724-26). Two important maps in this group are: Kaart der Reyse van Abel Tasman ; and  Staeten Landt Bezylt en Ontdekt met de Scheepen Heemskerk en de Zeehaen onder het Commande van den E. Abel Tasman. in den Iaare 1642. Den 13 December.

Nicolaas Visscher (1618-79), published several world maps that portray part of New Zealand’s western littoral beside the name Zelandia Nova or Zeelandia Nova. Visscher also published a decorative map of North and South America, c. 1680 which includes part of New Zealand. The world map published by Hugo Allard, referred to above under the sub-heading “Maps inscribed with the name Staten Landt, was probably originally published by N. Visscher or his father C. J. Visscher.

Frederick de Wit (1616-98), published a Pacific chart,  Magnum Mare Del Zur cum insula California.  The copper plate used in printing this chart later came into the hands of the Ottens family who revised the copper plate and printed fresh charts. Part of New Zealand beside the name Zeelandia Nova, is included in a double-hemisphere world map titled Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore F. De Wit,  published in 1666. In this map, New Zealand’s western littoral is broken at the fortieth parallel in the area of Cook Strait as it is in Blaeu’s map of 1660. (See the detail of Blaeu's map in fig. DYD1.6.)

[To follow:  An Amsterdam map publisher, engraver and bookseller, Jacob van Meurs (1620-80), prepared a decorative map titled "Novissima ... Totius Americae Descriptio," c. 1671 this map portrays part of New Zealand beside the name Zelandia Nova. This map of America prepared by Jacob Meurscum is found in a work entitled, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America en 't Zuid-land door Arnoldus Montanus, Amsterdam, 1671. The ship and figure in the cartouche are unrelated to the representation of New Zealand.]

Jan Luyts (1655-1720), prepared at Utrecht in 1692, a world map modelled on Nicolas Sanson’s work,  Mappe-Monde ou Carte Générale du Globe Terrestre ... Par le Sr. Sanson. - see the note on Sanson below under the sub-heading “French maps published previous to 1770.”
 

Other Dutch map-makers who prepared or published maps that include part of New Zealand modelled on earlier Dutch maps were: Johannes de Ram (1648-93), Gerard Valk (c. 1650-1726), and Carel Allard (1648-1709), son of Hugo Allard mentioned above.

English maps published previous to 1770

John Seller (fl. London, 1664, d. 1697), prepared and published in 1675, a Pacific chart titled A Chart of the South Sea. This chart includes part of New Zealand’s western littoral beside the name Staten Land; Seller maintained a close association with map-publishers in the Netherlands and modelled his chart on one of the Dutch maps which includes the surreptitiously-obtained data relating to New Zealand.

Emanuel Bowen (c. 1720-67), prepared a south-west Pacific map titled, A Complete Map of the Southern Continent Survy’d by Capt. Abel Tasman and depicted by Order of the East India Company in Holland in the Stadt House at Amsterdam. The map is found in, John Harris, Navigantium Atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca or a Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels (London, 1744).

Bowen’s map was based on the French work of Thévenot, mentioned below, under the sub-heading “French maps published previous to 1770. (fn. Thévenot’s map is illustrated in figure DYD1.13 below.)

A son of Emanuel Bowen, Thomas Bowen (fl. 1749-90), engraved a number of maps that include a part of New Zealand but in general they are not of a high standard.

Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808), prepared the important chart titled  "Chart of the South Pacifick Ocean Pointing out the Discoveries made therein Previous to 1764". The chart was published in Dalrymple’s book, An Account of the Discoveries Made in the Pacific Ocean, Previous to 1764 (London, 1767). James Cook carried Dalrymple’s book to the Pacific during the voyage when he circumnavigated New Zealand in 1769-70.
 

Thomas Jefferys (c. 1695-1771), published John Green’s great chart of North and South America, in six sheets, in 1753. Sheet no. 5, portrays part of New Zealand and the legend “New Zeeland Inhabited.”

In 1688, Herman Moll (d. 1732), a German engraver who worked in England, published a double-hemisphere map, which shows part of New Zealand’s western littoral with a gap near the fortieth parallel. (fn. 6. A similar representation is illustrated in figure DYD1.6 above.) Robert Morden (d. 1703), included a double-hemisphere map in his work, Geography Rectified (London, 1680). This world map portrays part of New Zealand’s west coast beside the name New Zeland.”

Joseph Moxon (1627-1700), re-engraved a copper plate first prepared for printing a world map in 1610 and added part of New Zealand with the name Zelandia Nova. A revised print, dated 1655, is found in the third edition of Edward Wright’s book, Certain Errors in Navigation (London, 1657.  Remarks:  Moxon's world map is the earliest dated map to portray a part of New Zealand.

Moses Pitt (d. 1696), prepared Pitt’s English Atlas (London, 1680), which includes a world map printed from a copper plate that had earlier belonged to the Amsterdam publisher van Loon. This map, dedicated to Charles II, portrays part of New Zealand’s western littoral beside the name Zeelandia Nova.

John Thornton (1679-1740), who collaborated with Seller, worked as a hydrographer and published atlases. Some of his maps include part of New Zealand.

Edward Wells (1667-1727), a mathematician and geographer, produced several world maps that portray part of New Zealand’s west coast.

Two other English mapmakers who prepared or published maps that include part of New Zealand modelled on earlier Dutch maps were, William Berry (fl. 1669-1708), and Philip Lea (fl. 1666, d. 1700).

French maps published previously to 1770

Melchisédech Thévenot (c. 1620-92), prepared the earliest French map to portray a part of New Zealand. This important south-west Pacific map is found in M. Thévenot, Relation de divers voyages cvrievx qvi (Paris, 1663). The name Zeelandia Nova is inscribed in the map.

Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-72), the elder, prepared two maps that portray part of New Zealand’s west coast modelled on the Staten Landt group of printed maps, except for the name. These maps are included in, A.F. Prévost d’Exiles, Histoire générale des voyages (Paris, 1747-61). Remarks: The best known of these maps by Bellin is a south-west Pacific map titled,  Carte Réduite des Terres Australes Pour Servir a l’Histoire des Voyages ... 1753.  Jean de Surville consulted Bellin’s maps as he approached New Zealand in the St Jean Baptiste, in 1769. And Cook probably consulted one of Bellin’s maps on the Endeavour, in 1769-70.

Courtesy National Library of Australia. Figure DYD1.14. Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-72), the elder, prepared two maps that portray part of New Zealand’s west coast modelled on the Staten Landt group of printed maps, except for  the name. These maps are included in, A.F. Prévost d’Exiles,  Histoire générale des voyages (Paris, 1747-61). Remarks: The best known of these maps by Bellin is a south-west  Pacific map titled,  "Carte Réduite des Terres Australes Pour Servir a l’Histoire des Voyages ... 1753."  Jean de Surville consulted Bellin’s  maps as he approached New Zealand in the St Jean Baptiste,  in 1769. And Cook  probably consulted one of Bellin’s maps on the Endeavour, in 1769-70.

Robert de Vaugondy (1686-1766) prepared an important south-west Pacific map. Robert’s map is found in, Charles de Brosses, Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australe, 2 vols (Paris, 1756). This map titled, "Carte Réduite De L’Australasie, pour servir à la lecture de L’Histoire Des Terres Australes"  was modelled on a map or maps in the Staten Landt group of printed maps referred to above. Cook carried de Brosses’ book including de Vaugondy’s map on the Endeavour during his circumnavigation of New Zealand in 1769-70.

Guillaume De L’Isle (1675-1726), published maps and globes. His terrestrial globe of 1700 includes part of New Zealand’s west coast beside the name Nle. Zelande and place-names.

Nicolas Sanson (1600-67), was the founder of the great school of French cartographers which flourished from the late seventeenth century until the end of the eighteenth century. Sanson emphasised a hypothetical east coast for New Zealand in his maps and and in his world map of 1660, an eastern coast is portrayed which stretches across the southern Pacific Ocean as far as South America. (See the detail in  Luyts’ map, figure DYD1-9  above; this map was modelled on Sanson’s work.)

Some other French cartographers who prepared or published maps that include part of New Zealand modelled on earlier Dutch maps were, Phillipe Bauche (1700-73), Pierre Du Val (1618-83), Alexis Hubert Jaillot (c. 1632-1712), Gerard Jollain (fl. 1772), Nicholas de Fer (1646-1720), and Jean Baptiste Nolin (1657-1725).

Italian and German maps published previous to 1770

Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718), who worked at Venice as a map-maker and a producer of globes, published a large single-volume atlas, Atlante Veneto  (Venice, 1691-96), which includes part of New Zealand’s western littoral as a text illustration.  The same map appears in Coronelli’s Epitome Cosmografica, 1693. A western hemisphere map that portrays part of New Zealand, bound in with an atlas published by Coronelli, is also known.

Giovanni de Rossi (fl. 1674-1690), an Italian, published at Rome, a world map in which the New Zealand area is modelled on Sanson’s work. De Rossi also published a re-engraved version of de Wit’s world wall-map, in 1675.

Johann Baptiste Homann (1663-1724), founded the most important and prolific eighteenth-century German map-making firm. Several world maps published by Homann portray part of New Zealand.

Bibliography

Campbell, T. 1976 A Descriptive Census of Willem Blaeu’s Sixty-eight Centimetre Globes Imago Mundi 28: 21-50.
Hooker, Brian. 1972 New Light on the Mapping and Naming of New Zealand The New Zealand Journal of History 6 (2): 158-167.
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Koeman, C. 1967-71 Atlantes Neerlandici. 5 vols, Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarvm.
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Shirley, R. 1984. The Mapping of the World. London: Holland Press.

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