The Continents
New Holland (Australia)
The first printed glimpse of Australia.
- Map
- Hollandia Nova — Terre Australe
- Mapmaker
- Melchisédech Thévenot (after Tasman)
- Date
- 1663
- Held by
- Published Paris
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
For most of history, the bottom of the map was a rumor. This 1663 chart, drawn from the Dutch voyages of Abel Tasman, is the first map published in Europe to show any real coastline of Australia — the west and north traced with confidence, and the entire east coast, still unseen by any European ship, simply left blank. A continent caught in the act of appearing, half-known and half-imagined. The last great landmass to be drawn onto the world.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Published Paris — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag or textured laid stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on stock made to outlive its owner.
