Map. Color lithograph, mounted on linen. Image measures 16" x 26.75". Nicely detailed map of Australia, with paths of exploration, railroads and other landmarks. Includes insets of of Tasmania (known as Van Diemen Land until 1856), and the world with "distances from Australian ports". Lists of counties and distances between ports are scattered about page. From Letts's Popular Atlas, which was published 1881-1884. Only faint scattered foxing in margins. Thomas Letts (1803-1873) was an English stationer and printer who went into business with his son Charles in 1870. They published a wide range of materials in addition to atlases such as interest tables, specialist clerical and medical diaries, calendars, parliamentary registers, ledgers, and logbooks, and they were best known for popularizing the diary. Seller Inventory # 206523

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Title: Statistical Map of Australia

Publisher: Letts, Son & Co, London

Binding: unbound

Condition: very good

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We are a large retail store, with 6 floors of out-of-print and rare books, (including Americana, modern first editions, history of medicine and science), antique maps and prints, autograph manuscripts, letters & signatures.

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Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB
116 East 59th Street, New York, NY, 10022, U.S.A.

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Argosy Book Store, Inc.
Benjamin Lowry
116 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022
USA

telephone 212-753-4455
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