BARTHOLOMEW, John

Philips' Series of Travelling Maps. South Australia [cover title on the cloth case of a linen-backed folding map]

London, George Philip & Son, [not before 1862].

A full-colour map, printed surface 610 × 510 mm, cut into 20 panels mounted on linen (as issued), folded, and mounted in the publisher's gilt-decorated cloth case (external dimensions 190 × 118 mm).

Cloth a little bumped at the extremities and sunned on the spine; original leading-edge ribbon ties missing; minimal discolouration to the map; overall, in excellent condition.

Philips' Authentic Maps of the Australian Colonies, Number 6 (according to the information printed on the front pastedown). The name 'Holdsworth | 1867' is written in ink at the head of the pastedown. Pertinent details printed on the map that provide evidence of the date of publication include 'Burke & Wills 1860-61', and the locations where King, and the bodies of Gray, Burke and Wills, were found (King was found in September 1861). The latest reference to Stuart is 'Stuart's Route 1860' (presumably his fifth expedition, from November 1860 to September 1861). The entire region of South Australia west of about 133 degrees east longitude and north of the coastline is described as 'Unexplored Country added to South Australia in 1861'; the Act to annex this land was passed in Great Britain in August 1861.

Tooley 974 (basic details of the map only, not noting the Travelling Maps series).

Item #144315

Price (AUD): $750.00
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