desceliers

Updated: May 16, 2025

The locality, however, corresponds to a stretch of coast further north than Botany Bay. This is a map of the same type as the one I have just described. It forms part of another large manuscript planisphere, draughted and illuminated by Pierre Desceliers, a priest of Argues near Hâvres, and it bears in bold characters an inscription to that effect with the date 1550.

George Collingridge - The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea : Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts.

But Flinders, when on this coast, actually came across native huts similar to those depicted on P. Desceliers' chart of Australia. His is another planisphere, of the same school of map-makers. I give it here in its entirety, in order to show how the Australian portion stands, in all these maps, with reference to other countries.

George Collingridge - The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea : Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts.

In the preceding pages I have only described the most important of these manuscript charts. The following is the list in chronological order of all the specimens known to exist: The Dauphin Chart 1530-36 2. Jean Roze's 1542 4. P. Desceliers' 1550 6. G. Le Testu's 1555 7. Desliens' 1566

George Collingridge - The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea : Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts.