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Plan de la ville de Sydney: (Capitale des colonies Anglaises aux Terres Australes) 1802

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Charles Alexandre Lesueur
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a128189 / ZM Ser4 000/1 Mss 4530 map 3]
(Bordeaux : Chaumas-Gayet , 1812, Mitchell Library)

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Plan de la ville de Sydney: Capitale des colonies Anglaises, aux terres Australes 1802

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Lesueur, Charles Alexandre

Artist and naturalist on the French naval and scientific expedition to Australia under Baudin on Le Géographe and Le Naturaliste in 1800-1804.

State Library of New South Wales

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Plan de la ville de Sydney: Capitale des colonies Anglaises, aux terres Australes 1802

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Map of Sydney in 1802 drawn by Charles Alexandre Lesueur, based on survey by Charles-Pierre Boulanger who both visited the city in 1802 on the Geographe under Nicolas Baudin. The survey reached France in 1804 and was first published in 'Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes...' in 1812.