1845 Handtke & Flemming Large Antique Map of Australia - Population of 213,500 Solomon Islands He began his naval career

He began his naval career in a secretarial position at the French Atlantic port of Rochefort

which gave his countenance altogether an air of austerity

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Many of the original charts and maps drawn by the first Portuguese and Spanish navigators have survived for the very good reason that

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1845 Handtke & Flemming Large Antique Map of Australia - Population of 213,500 Solomon Islands He began his naval careerTitle : Australland 1841 Date : 1845 Condition: (A) Very Good Condition Ref: 31977 Size: 16in x 14in (405mm x 355mm) Description: This hand coloured original steel plate engraved antique highly detailed map of Australia, with a population census of the entire country in 1841, by Friedrich Handtke in 1845, was published in the Complete hand atlas of the recent description of the earth over all parts of the earth, Carl Flemming, Glougau. General