Cartography

  • Map of Australia

    # 15660

    Map of Australia

    London : Edward Stanford, 26 & 27 Cochspur Street, Charing Cross, [circa 1893]. Chromolithographed map, dissected and laid on linen, overall size 688 x 912 mm, housed in publisher’s cloth slipcase with printed title label, a fine copy. With the routes of many inland explorers (Sturt; Landsborough; Warburton; Giles; Tietkens etc). and inset map showing the …

  • General Map of Australia and Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land shewing the British Colonies as divided into Counties.

    # 15630

    RAVENSTEIN, E.

    General Map of Australia and Tasmania, or Van Diemen’s Land shewing the British Colonies as divided into Counties.

    Edinburgh : A. and C. Black (‘Drawn by E. Ravenstein … Lith. and printed in Colours by Schenk & McFarlane, Edinburgh’), 1857 (second edition). Map lithographed in colour, measures 960 x 1200 mm (printed surface), dissected and mounted on linen, a number of pen annotations, folded to approximately 253 x 312 mm, housed in a …

  • Isles de Salomon

    # 15536

    MALLET, Alain-Manesson

    Isles de Salomon

    [Paris] : [Chez Denis Thierry], [c. 1683]. Octavo leaf (209 x 131 mm) from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, the text verso in French with two brief entries titled De la Terre de Quir and De la nouvelle Zealand. Pre-Cook map showing Portuguese and Dutch discoveries of Quiros, Mendana and Tasman, the Solomons connected to New Zealand via the …

  • Notice sur la province de Canterbury, Nouvelle Zélande, avec carte.

    # 12714

    BUDÉ, Eugène de (1836-1910)

    Notice sur la province de Canterbury, Nouvelle Zélande, avec carte.

    At head of title: A.M.F. Flowers: souvenir d’amitié. Genève : Librairie Carey, 1866. Large octavo, original printed yellow wrappers (early ownership signature to upper wrapper), pp 22, folding map at rear; a very good copy. A concise overview of the province of Canterbury which includes appendices on farming and emigration, with a table of the …

  • [MAP] Australien

    # 12046

    WEILAND, Carl Ferdinand (1782-1847)

    [MAP] Australien

    / entworfen und gezeichnet 1823 nach dem Krusenstern’schen Atlasse umgearbeitet 1825. Weimar: Im Verlage des Geograph. Instituts, 1826. Engraved map with hand colouring, 430 x 595 mm, dissected and laid down on linen, folding to 220 x 190 mm; map of Australia and Oceania with relief shown by hachures; in very good condition with a …

  • [MAP] Karte von Australien oder Polynesien : nach den Zeichnungen, Reisebeschreibungen

    # 10394

    WEIGEL & SCHNEIDERSCHEN

    [MAP] Karte von Australien oder Polynesien : nach den Zeichnungen, Reisebeschreibungen

    und Tagebücher der vorzüglichsten Seefahrer bis 1789 entworffen im Jahr 1792, vermehrt 1796. Nürnberg : in der Weigel und Schneiderschen Handlung mit Kayserl. allergnl. Privil., 1796 [but probably 1804-1808]. Copperplate engraved map with hand colouring, 460 x 650 mm, verso with contemporary title in large, bold manuscript AUSTRALIEN; central vertical fold, as issued; a fine copy. A …

  • Map of South Australia, New South Wales, Van Diemens Land, and Settled parts of Australia.

    # 10126

    WYLD, James

    Map of South Australia, New South Wales, Van Diemens Land, and Settled parts of Australia.

    Respectfully dedicated to Major Sir T.L. Mitchell K.t D.C.L. F.G.S. &c Surveyor General of New South Wales …. London : James Wyld, [c.1848]. Engraved map with hand colouring, 620 x 1000 mm, dissected and laid on linen and edged in green silk, as issued, folding to 210 x 130 mm, in original card slipcase with …

  • [MAP] Karte der britischen Besitzungen in Ost-Indien, mit einer Uebersicht der Zeitfolge ihrer Erwerbung

    # 10045

    KIEPERT, Heinrich

    [MAP] Karte der britischen Besitzungen in Ost-Indien, mit einer Uebersicht der Zeitfolge ihrer Erwerbung

    Aus Kiepert’s neuem Handatlas, no. 29. Also titled: Vorder-Indien. Berlin : Dietrich Reimer, 1857. Chromolithographed map, 600 x 470 mm, folding to 200 x 120 mm, in original printed grey covers, a very good copy.

  • Stanford’s Library Map of Australasia constructed by A. Keith Johnston F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S. &c.

    # 8509

    JOHNSTON, Keith, 1844-1879

    Stanford’s Library Map of Australasia constructed by A. Keith Johnston F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S. &c.

    Cover title: Stanford’s map of Australasia. London : Edward Stanford, 1859. First edition. Steel engraved map with hand colouring, total 1550 x 1740 mm, dissected into 48 sections, laid onto linen edged with blue silk, folding to 255 x 215 mm, within original embossed brown morocco boards with gilt lettering and ornament (rubbed, spine frayed …

  • Historisch-geographischer Hand-Atlas zur Geschichte Asiens, Africa’s, America’s und Australiens.

    # 3377

    SPRUNER von MERZ, Karl (1803-1892)

    Historisch-geographischer Hand-Atlas zur Geschichte Asiens, Africa’s, America’s und Australiens.

    Gotha : Justus Perthes, 1853. First edition. Oblong folio, original half black morocco with patterned green papered limp boards, gilt lettering (some staining to front and rear boards; rear board with small section of surface loss; spine frayed at tail), with [18] hand coloured steel engraved maps of the different regions of the world (the …

  • [CHILDREN’S GAME] Atlas géographique

    # 2813

    [CHILDREN’S GAME] Atlas géographique

    [Paris] : S[imonin] C[uny], n.d. [circa 1900]. Box of thick card (380 x 278 x 55 mm), the lid with a striking chromolithograph illustration showing a lady in Classical dress perusing an atlas, scientific and teaching instruments at her feet, a terrestrial globe at the centre, five vignettes of figures representing the five continents, the …

  • General karte saemmtlicher entdeckungen auf den drei grossen weltreisen des Kapit. Jakob Cook

    # 1589

    ROBERTS, Henry

    General karte saemmtlicher entdeckungen auf den drei grossen weltreisen des Kapit. Jakob Cook

    Vienna : F. A. Schraembl, 1789. Copperplate engraved map on two sheets, each measuring 605 x 495 mm (plateline) on paper 830 x 635 mm. Originally issued in Schraembl’s Allgemeiner grosser atlas. With original hand colour, in fine condition, one sheet with a paper reinforcement verso to the margin. This fine and large set of …