"South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria": by "Johnston, Alexander Keith": Antique Maps

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"South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria"

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by:: "Johnston, Alexander Keith"
Description:: " Printed from lithographic transfer, colour-printed and hand-coloured. Overall size : 49cm.x 61cm. Image size : 444mm.x 573mm. Inset map of York Peninsula. Centre fold as issued. Two scale of miles; railways marked. Very good condition apart from one faint fox map in the bottom blank; a very pale one at the top of the Great Barrier Reef and two in the margins. 32mm archival strengthening at centrefold on verso of map. Highly detailed map.A.K.Johnston trained as an engraver and cartographer and eventually, with his brother William, established the publishing house of W.& A.K. Johnston in 1826. They published maps, atlases and globes including the first physical globe produced in Britain which won him an award at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and which is now displayed in the premises of the Royal Geographical Society. His study of geography led to him pioneering the the development of thematic atlases such as the Physical Atlas of 1846 which illustrated the botany, geology, hydrology, meteorology and zoology of the world. He also worked with the Royal Geographical Society in planning expeditions to Africa and was a friend of David Livingstone."
Publisher:: W. Blackwood & Sons.
Published Date:: 1872
MostlyMaps ID:: 48285
Price :: £65.00

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