Australia New South Wales Sydney Port Jackson inset 1852 Lowry old map 3 sheets
Australia New South Wales Sydney Port Jackson inset 1852 Lowry old map 3 sheets Australia New South Wales Sydney Port Jackson inset 1852 Lowry old map 3 sheets Australia New South Wales Sydney Port Jackson inset 1852 Lowry old map 3 sheets
$ 125.00

New South Wales and Part of Victoria- with Inset of Port Jackson and Botany Bay Enlarged.

(Oceania, Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Port Jackson, Botany Bay).

3 SHEETS- complete set as issued.

Issued: 186 Strand, London, [1852] by Chapman & Hall. [same early publishers of now often rare Charles Dickens books, this atlas publication of theirs today being of quite some scarcity].

Drawn & engraved by J.W. Lowry. Cerographic method, orig. outline hand color.

Excellent mid-19th century set of cerographically printed mid-19th century maps. All three with a style of hand color entirely unique to the maps from this particular rare atlas. Their hue & intensity is worthy of note.

Clean set, light uniform age toning, no issues, well preserved.

Each sheet measures c. 12 1/4" x 9 3/4".

Printed areas measure c. 11" x 8 1/4".

Total map area measures 12 1/4" x 29 1/4".

Tooley, Mapping of Australia; Printed Maps of New South Wales , 115 (noting the slight disparity with longitude cartographic alignment between the sheets which comprise the 2 foot high map. Also notes the specific 1852 source, same one identified within the source below).

Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers , vol. 3, p. 162

[R21082]