The Discovery of Australia. The Charts and Maps of the Navigators and Explorers by Perry, T. M - 1982

London: Thomas Nelson, 1982. Hardcover. Very good + condition. An account of the gradual awareness of a Great South Land, beginning with Medieval maps and illustrated with the work of the most distinguished cartographers, including Mercator, Ortelius, Blaeu, Hondius, Jansson, Visscher, Goos, Thevenot, Cook, Hunter, Bligh, Bass, Flinders, de Freycinet, King, Oxley and Sturt. Folio, 159pp, color and b&w ills in text. Quarter gray green cloth with pale green illustrated boards; gilt title at spine. Pictorial dust jacket with title in dark brown on pale green ground; color illustration of map. Boards and dj in very good+ condition; the gentlest rubbing to dj.