Atlas of Australia with all the Gold Regions

A series of maps from the latest and best authorities. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, c. 1853. Quarto, later gilt-lettered cloth, containing six hand-coloured engraved maps (five double page, and one folding) of the gold regions of Australia, a few pale stains, short tape repair to the margin of the first map, and a longer tape repair to a tear across the second map.

A scarce atlas of the gold regions of Australasia during the commencement of the gold rush of the 1850s.

Contents:

I. General map of Australasia, New Zealand, Polynesia and surrounding islands

II. Australia – divided into districts

III. New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, shewing the different gold deposits

IV. New South Wales – divided into counties, with all the gold deposits accurately laid down, and a plan of Sydney

V. Victoria – divided into counties, with all the gold deposits accurately laid down, and a plan of the Mount Alexander Gold Region

VI. New Zealand, Van Diemen’s Land, and the settled portion of Western Australia, comprehending the Swan River and Australind.