Whitehead's Map of Victoria, with Alphabetical Key, 1869.
Publication date: 1869
- Map
- Used
Seller: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
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Condition: Used
£ 1,288.14
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Very good. Even overall toning. Foxing. Light wear along original fold lines. Dissected and mounted on linen in twenty-one panels. Some loss at fold intersections. Size 19.5 x 29.5 Inches. This is an 1869 Whitehead map of Victoria, Australia. The map is an early edition of one of the most successful cartographic enterprises of the Victoria Gold Rush Era. It also includes manuscript annotations marking gold diggings - 'x' marks the spot! A Closer Look Coverage embraces from the border between Victoria and South Australia to New South Wales and from New South Wales to Bass's Straits and Wilson's Promontory. Cities, towns, villages, and smaller settlements are labeled throughout and indexed in the borders. Individual dig sites are identified in Loddon and elsewhere. A series of manuscript 'X's appear in Wimmera District (situated on the map's left side) and Rippon District, which could indicate the claims of a prospector and, if so, a case when 'X' truly marks the spot! Roads, railroads, and telegraph lines are noted. Other annotations comment on vegetation and physical geography. The Victoria Gold Rush The Victoria Gold Rush (c. 1851 - 1869) was inaugurated with the announcement that gold was discovered in Loddon District. Fortune-seekers from all over the world began pouring into Victoria. Hundreds of overnight towns sprang up. Recognizing a political and demographic sea change, Port Phillip District was permitted to secede from New South Wales to create the Colony of Victoria. Melbourne had a population of around 29,000 in 1851, which grew to over 500,000 by 1861, and then to 700,000 by 1869. Gold production in Victoria exceeded all other gold-producing regions, with the exception of California, with its highest annual yield reaching 3,053,744 troy ounces in 1856. Between 1851 and 1896 a total of 61,034,682 ounces of gold were extracted from mines in Victoria. Publication History and Census This map was printed and published by Edward Whitehead and Company in 1869, making it an early edition in one of the most successful series of regional maps of Australia ever produced. Even so, this map is rare, with only four examples cataloged in the OCLC, all of which are in Australia: the University of Queensland, the State Library of New South Wales, the National Library of Australia, and the State Library of Victoria. It is also rare on the private market, with only a half-dozen examples from the entire run of the series appearing at auction in the last two decades. References: OCLC 948645527. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Whitehead's Map of Victoria, with Alphabetical Key, 1869.
- Author
- 1869 Whitehead Map of Victoria, Australia, During the Victoria Gold Rush
- Publication year
- 1869
- Seller catalogs
- AUSTRALIA-POLYNESIA
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Geographicus Rare Antique Maps was founded in New York, New York, by Kevin James Brown in 1999. We are specialist antiquarians dealing in historic maps from all over the world and in all price ranges. Our enthusiasm, passion, and devotion to scholarship is expressed in our meticulously researched descriptions, among the most detailed and comprehensive available anywhere, for each and every rare map that passes over our desk. This same devotion guides the relationships of honesty and trust we have fostered with our clients, whether through purchasing or selling a rare map, getting an appraisal, or simply calling to discuss antique maps in general. We are happy to assist you no matter whether you are an interior decorator, an institution, an experienced collector, or are just looking for a single antique map. Geographicus is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), the New York Map Society, the Washington Map Society, the IMCOS, and the Society for the History of Discoveries. While primarily an internet-based company, we are happy to meet with clients to show our antique maps by appointment at our New York City location.…
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Geographicus Rare Antique Maps was founded in New York, New York, by Kevin James Brown in 1999. We are specialist antiquarians dealing in historic maps from all over the world and in all price ranges. Our enthusiasm, passion and devotion to scholarship is expressed in our meticulously researched descriptions, among the most detailed and comprehensive available anywhere, for each and every rare map that passes over our desk.
This same devotion guides the relationships of honesty and trust we have fostered with our clients, whether through purchasing or selling a rare map, getting an appraisal, or simply calling to discuss antique maps in general. We are happy to assist you no matter whether you are an interior decorator, an institution, an experienced collector, or are just looking for a single antique map.
Geographicus is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), Philip Lee Phillips Society, the New York Map Society, the Washington Map Society, the International Map Collectors Society and the Society for the History of Discoveries. While primarily an internet-based company, we are happy to meet with clients to show our antique maps by appointment at our New York City location.
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