Facsimile of chart from Nicholas Vallard’s manuscript sea atlas (1547), showing Jave La Grande’s east coast. The facsimile was given the title “The first Map of Australia from Nicholas Vallard’s Atlas, 1547” by the English publisher in 1856. The original Vallard chart was produced in Dieppe, France in the 16th century, and is thought by several writers to represent Portuguese charting of the eastern coast of Australia.
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