Cartography
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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.
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …