Dec 08, 2022 - Sale 2624

Sale 2624 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(AUSTRALIA.) Adam & Charles Black. The British Colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania Shewing the Latest Discoveries and Travellers Routes. Large tinted lithographed case map with colors finished by hand. 39x48 3/4 inches overall, segmented, mounted to original linen back, folding into publisher's gilt-blocked cloth covers; case a bit worn and starting at spine, map with moderate soiling. Edinburgh, 1861

Additional Details

Exceptional large-format map of Australia with a legend of 11 colonial inland explorer's routes, several numbered county indices, and detail insets of the Colony of Victoria, Port Jackson and Botany Bay with the Environs of Sydney, Mount Alexander Gold Region, Tasmania or Van Diemen's Land, Port Phillip with Melbourne, Sketch Map to Show the Principal Commercial Routes to Australia, Norfolk Island, and New Zealand.

Not it Tooley; no market records; 2 institutional copies located (National Library of Australia, State Library of New South Wales).