• Title
  Item 05: Coastal profiles of Christmas Island, Sunda Straits, North Coast Java, Bangka Island, Gaspar Straits and Johannah Island, 1778-1790 ; Coastal profiles of New South Wales, ca. 1807
• Call number
  A 3931
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  4 Feb. 1778 - ca. 1807
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Drawings
• Reference code
  430565
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 16 sheets of drawings in pencil, ink and ink wash - 38 x 47 cm. or smaller - most sheets folded in half - some sheets strengthened with a protective layer of translucent paper; paper is brittle and torn at edges : ;
  Textual Records - manuscript, 1 hand lettered title page with ink wash drawing on reverse - 24 x 37 cm. - edges torn
  Textual Records - manuscript, 3 page letter in pencil, affixed down left hand side - 34 x 21 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  Drawings:
  1-16, 19-29. Profile of coasts - Christmas Island, Sunda Straits, N[orth] Coast Java, Bangka Island, Gaspar Straits, Apr. 13, July 8 - Sept. 10, 1789, ship "General Eliott" [incl. view of General Elliot, f.26]
  17-18. Sunda Straits, Christmas Island, Feb. 2-3, 1790, ship "Europa"
  30-31. Profile of ranges in New South Wales relating to John Oxley's expedition of 1817
  Title page:
  32. Ship Latham's last 4th voyage John Prince, Esq. commander Feb. 4 1778 [watercol. profile of Johannah Island on reverse]
  Letter:
  Charts of East Indies to the Chief Librarian [from H. Willacy, from whom the Library acquired the items]
• General note
  
  Most individual profiles are captioned in ink
  Dated from manuscript notes and 2 sheets watermarked 1807
  Many of the names of islands are not on modern charts but are to be found in the East India pilot 1803 (ML X912/23) v.2. The track of the "General Elliot" is shown on map 101
  Many of the names on the NSW profiles (30-31) are not on modern maps but they do appear on the map in Oxley's printed journal of 2 expeditions, 1820 (ML Q981/10)
  Probably 2 of the 5 "pencil drawings and scales of mountains" included in Lot 28 of Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge's sale catalogue of the Macquarie papers, Feb. 1914 (30-31).
  
  Microfilm available: CY 3679, frames 57 - 88
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824104
• Name
  Macquarie, Lachlan, 1761-1824
  
• Subject
  Oxley, John, 1783-1828.
  
• Topic
  coasts
  ships
  titlepages
  
• Place
  Java (Indonesia)
  New South Wales
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1126727

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