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FITZGERALD, Lawrence.
Java La Grande: the story of the Portuguese discovery of Australia circa 1521.
The Publishers Hobart 1984 1st ed. 4to. 140pp, illus, charts & sketch maps, pictorial endpapers. Pictorial papered boards with dustwrapper (closed clean tear near head of spine, in protective sleeve). Very good. ISBN 0949325007 ***The author, formerly Director of Survey for the Australian Army, argues that the Dieppe Maps do show the eastern coast of New Holland, and that the Portuguese came as far south as present-day Bicheno on Tasmania's east coast.
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