Name: Phillip Parker King (1791-1856)
Brand: [Atlas of King’s Charts of Australia.] London: Hydrographical Office of the Admiralty, 1824-1826.
Price: 8500.00 GBP
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Phillip Parker King (1791-1856)
[Atlas of King’s Charts of Australia.] London: Hydrographical Office of the Admiralty, 1824-1826.
A rare assemblage of King's important charts of the Australian coastline, completing the work of Cook and Flinders. Born on Norfolk Island in 1807 to Philip Gidley King (1758-1808), the third Governor of New South Wales, Phillip Parker was named after his grandfather Admiral Arthur Phillip (1738-1814), the first Governor of New South Wales and founder of the British penal colony which later became the city of Sydney. Hence his first name is spelled differently to his father’s, on account of his Australian heritage. King entered the Royal Navy in 1807, and in 1817 was put in charge of a survey of the coasts of Australia. He spent five years chiefly in the west, north and north-east, filling in the large remaining gaps in the early Dutch accounts of the north and west coasts, and revising and updating James Cook's charts of the east coast.

Despite their sponsorship of the Flinders voyage, the British Admiralty did not publish the charts to accompany Flinders' narrative of the voyage when it finally appeared in 1814 (see lot 84). However, when King's survey was finished in 1822, the Admiralty published the charts almost as soon as was practicable between 1824-1826. The present folio atlas contains the eight general charts and five north coast sheets compiled by him. King’s Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia describing the expeditions was written after the charts were published. Tooley, The Mapping of Australia, 801-808, 810-812, 814, 816.

Folio (669 x 485mm). 14 engraved charts, comprising 8 double-page charts numbered Sheets I-VIII, with Sheet VI present in both the first edition of 1825 and with the later 1838 issue loosely inserted, and 5 mounted single-page charts (a few charts with top-margins lightly dust-soiled, otherwise clean and fresh). Modern half calf.

James Wyld (19th-century mapseller’s small oval blindstamp on a few charts) — Devon and Exeter Institution (19th-century ink stamp on verso of mounting paper of one map) — Lt Cdr Andrew David (bookplate and with copy of a letter to Maggs loosely inserted discussing binding of charts).

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The overall condition of the atlas is excellent, and is described in the main cataloguing, noting that the condition is commensurate with age, use and materials. A indidivual map listing is as follows with condition notes; the numbers at end are Tooley's The Mapping of Australia reference numbers:

1. Chart of part of the N.E. Coast of Australia …Sheet 1. 10 Nov. 1824 Percy Islands to Halifax Bay 664 x 935mm very clean, with only just a trifle of dust-soiling and marking at extremities of margins 801

2.Chart of part of the N.E. Coast of Australia …Sheet 2. 17 Nov. 1824 Halifax Bay to Claremont Isles 935 x 664mm very clean, with only just a trifle of dust-soiling and marking at extremities of margins 802

3.Chart of part of the N.E. Coast of Australia …Sheet 3. 17 Nov. 1824 Cape Sidmouth to Torres Strait 935 x 664mm very clean, with only just a trifle of dust-soiling and marking at extremities of margins 803

4.Chart of the North Coast of Australia …Sheet IV. 16 May 1825 Gulf of Carpentaria to Cape Bay 664 x 935mm printed image very clean, lower left-hand margin lightly creased, extremities with heavier dust-soiling 804

5.Chart of part of the N.W. Coast of Australia …Sheet V. 4 June 1825 Cape Ford to Lacepede Isles 664 x 935mm very clean, with only just a trifle of dust-soiling and marking at extremities of margins 805

6. Chart of part of the N.W. Coast of Australia …Sheet VI. 10 June 1825 Buccaniers Archipelago to Cape Lambert 664 x 935mm very clean, with only just a trifle of dust-soiling and marking at extremities of margins 806

7. Chart of part of the N.W. Coast of Australia …Sheet VI. With additions by M. de Freycinet 1810 and Comrs. Wickham and Stokes 1838. 10 June 1825 Corrected to 1838 Buccaniers Archipelago to Cape Lambert 602 x 915mm loosely inserted, very good condition, with only some very light even toning 806

8.Chart of part of the N.W. and West Coasts of Australia …Sheet VII. 8 July 1825 Forestiers Islands to C. Cavier 664 x 935mm printed image very clean, top margin lightly cockled with heavier dust-soiling 807

9.Chart of West Coast of Australia …Sheet VIII. 1 August 1825 Nuyts Land to De Witts Land 935 x 664mm printed image very clean, bottom left- and right-hand margins with heavier dust-soiling 808

10. A plan of Admiralty Gulf and Vansittart Bay with North West Coast of Australia …30 Sept. 1826 305 x 375mm, mounted printed image very clean, sheet upon which it is mounted is cockled 810

11.The North West Coast of Australia from Camden Bay to Vansittart Bay …24 Nov. 1826 662 x 467mm printed image very clean, top margin lightly cockled with heavier dust-soiling 816

12.A plan of the Buccaniers Archipelago and part of the North West Coast of Australia …18 Oct 1826 662 x 467mm printed image very clean, bottom-right hand margin with heavier soiling 811

13.A Plan of Cambridge Gulf on the North West Coast of Australia …12 Oct. 1826 The date given by Tooley is 10th Oct 1826 317 x 222mm, mounted printed image very clean, sheet upon which it is mounted is cockled and with stamp of Devon and Exeter Institution on verso 812

14 A plan of Exmouth Gulf on the North West Coast of Australia …6 Oct. 1826 303 x 420mm, mounted printed image very clean, sheet upon which it is mounted is cockled 814

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