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General Map of Australia and Tasmania or Van Diemen's Land shewing The British Colonies as divided into Counties.: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps


Australia-ravenstein-1857
$4,000.00
Title
General Map of Australia and Tasmania or Van Diemen s Land shewing The British Colonies as divided into Counties.
  1857 (dated)    
    1 : 4500000
Description
A rare and striking first-edition chromolithograph gold rush era map of Australia issued by Ernst Georg Ravenstein in 1857 - without a doubt one of the largest and most decorative commercial maps of Australia to appear in the 19th century. The map covers the entire continent with insets detailing nearby New Zealand, the colony of Victory, Sydney, the Mount Alexander gold region, Norfolk Island, and commercial maritime routes to and from Australian ports. The first edition, as here, features two dramatic vignettes: the wharves at Melbourne and a curious British Royal crest modified to honor Prince Albert. The map depicts Australia in the midst of a continent-wide population explosion driven by a series of gold rushes lasting over half a cen ....

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