The Investors' and Newspaper Readers' Pocket Map of Africa, 1901 [cover title]
Edinburgh, W. and A.K. Johnston, 1901. Scale: 1:11,800,800. The title is given simply as 'Africa' in the cartouche. No mention is made of the war in South Africa. More
Edinburgh, W. and A.K. Johnston, 1901. Scale: 1:11,800,800. The title is given simply as 'Africa' in the cartouche. No mention is made of the war in South Africa. More
[Canberra], 'Prepared by the National Mapping Section, Department of the Interior ... Reproduced by Royal Australian Survey Corps', 1951. The states are printed en bloc in different colours; Tasmania appears on the third sheet as an inset (239 × 239 mm). This very large and detailed map shows 'homesteads, minor..... More
[London], By Permission of the 'Manchester Guardian', [1916]. A piece of hemmed white linen (overall dimensions 610 × 465 mm), the map (510 × 382 mm) printed in black, within a decorative blue and red border; in fine condition. The area depicted is roughly from Arras, Pozières, Albert and Rosières-en-Santerre..... More
Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1872. 'Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen' (Petermann's Geographical Communications), founded by August Heinrich Petermann in 1855, ceased publication only as recently as 2004. It was 'the oldest German-language journal for geography, in which all major geographical discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries were published' (Wikipedia). About J.M. Gilmore..... More
London, Longmans & Co., [circa 1850s]. The first issue of this map appeared in 'Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas', which comprised county maps from the 'British Atlas' of J. & C. Walker (first published in 1837). This version is a lithographic transfer, taken from the original steel plate engraved by J. &..... More
London, Edward Stanford, 1903 ('10.IX.03'). An attractive and detailed map of Japan, issued on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War. More
Adelaide, Printed by Halliday Bros. Ltd for S.C. Ward and Co., 1933. Despite its prosaic title and relative youth, this is an item of great charm, printed in two-toned blocks in fifteen different colours. Suitably framed, it would create a magnificent panorama well over a metre and a half wide..... More
Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1860. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 25 of 1860. The steamer sank without loss of life after having initially struck on the eastern bank of the Channel after leaving Goolwa. A re-survey of the mouth of the Murray was organized; the accompanying chart is overprinted..... More
London, George Philip, [late 1861]. Philips' Authentic Maps of the Australian Colonies, Number 6 (according to the information printed on the front pastedown). Tooley 974 (basic details of the map only, not noting the Travelling Maps series). Pertinent details printed on the map that provide evidence of the date of..... More
[Paris, 'Levé par Lesueur., J. Milbert direx., Cloquet sculp.', 1824]. A handsomely-presented example of this early French map of Sydney, from the published account of the Baudin expedition of 1800-3. This version comes from the atlas to the second edition of 1824. It contains significantly more detail than the version..... More
[Antwerp, Plantin, from the second version of the plate, re-engraved circa 1574]. A hand-coloured engraved map from Ortelius' groundbreaking 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum', considered the first modern geographical atlas, 'produced in thirty-one editions between 1570 and 1612' (David Parry: 'The Cartography of the East Indian Islands', 2005). Archivally mounted, ready for..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1906. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 57 of 1906; only 570 copies printed. Primarily a detailed map of a roughly rectangular region from Farina in the south, extending about 20 miles east of Farina, to about 20 miles north and west of Marree. More