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Carlton; Queensberry Hill Press; (c-1985). Facsimile map 46cm x 72.4cm, very good condition. This facsimile map was printed for the Queensberry Press, they were originally laid down on cloth and hand coloured, and issued in a limited edition of 155 copies, this map must have been surplus to the edition it has not been laid down on cloth and the rivers and boundaries have not been coloured, still a very important map. Surveyor Major Thomas Mitchell passed through what is now known as Victoria in 1836 naming all the country south of the Murray River "Australia Felix". It was a landmark journey in Australian History as shortly after his expedition the whole region was opened up and settled by the new inhabitants of the continent. Melbourne was founded the following year. The 1847 Thomas Ham map (of which this is a facsimile) was the best map available for people to find their way around Victoria. At the time the map was mounted on canvas and folded to fit into saddle bags. Names and locations…
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A Map of Australia Felix.
by HAM, Thomas
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Melbourne: Queensberry Hill Press. 1984. #137 of 155 numbered copies, bound in full leather, richly tooled in gold (but lacking the plain card slipcase in which it was issued). Small 8vo. vi, 42pp, large folding coloured map laid on linen, facsimile of original advertisement for the map mounted as a frontispiece. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0909174482 *** From the 13-part Victoriana Series. The map was issued ten times between 1847 and 1864; the reproduction here is of the original issue. The text comprises a survey of the various issues by Thomas Darragh and the Key to the 1847 issue. .
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- ISBN 10 0909174482
- ISBN 13 9780909174484
- Publisher Queensberry Hill Press
- Place of Publication Melbourne
- Date Published 1984
- Keywords colonial, exploration, map, port phillip, settlement, squatters, squatting, Victoria
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A Map Of Australia Felix: Compiled & Carefully Revised from the Colonial Government Surveys, Crown Lands Commissioners & Explorers Maps, Private Surveys etc.
by HAM, THOMAS
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