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Atlas, containing a map of Australasia : accompanied by a brief chronological outline of the marine discoveries of its different islands & the inland discoveries & settlement of the different provinces of the main island of Australia, of which provinces there are the following maps : New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, North Australia or probably Albert Land
Title
Atlas, containing a map of Australasia : accompanied by a brief chronological outline of the marine discoveries of its different islands & the inland discoveries & settlement of the different provinces of the main island of Australia, of which provinces there are the following maps : New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, North Australia or probably Albert Land / compiled & reduced to same scale from the government maps of the different provinces & the unsettled parts from the exploration tracks of Dr. Leichhardt, Sir Thos. Mitchell, Messrs. Eye, Kennedy, Captn. Sturt, A.C. Gregory, Stuart, F. Gregory, F. Gregory, Burke & Wills, Walker, Howitt, Landsborough, McKinlay & for the coast from the marine surveys of Capt. Flinders, Stokes, King &c. by F. Proeschel, F.R.S.V. geographer ex M.A.I.A.M & M.S.E.I.N.F.
Published
Emerald Hill [Vic.] : Brown & Slight, [1863]
Physical Description
1 atlas ([44] pages, [7] folded leaves of plates) : color maps ; 42 cm
Cartographic Detail
Scales differ.
Local Notes
BEIN Atlas Coll. Folio G2750 P76 1863 (LC): Imperfect: brittle and chipped, with some loss of text.
Notes
Atlas of Australia documenting the astonishing commercial progress the Australian Colonies had made over the last 12 since the discovery of gold in Victoria in 1851 and including the top quality of their exports particularly wheat and wool. Apart from the maps, the atlas includes explanatory text, chronologies and statistical tables demonstrating social, commercial, mineral, pastoral and agricultural trends.
Additional text on title page: Each province being followed by a chronological outline of some yearly leading facts in its history & by a most complete general statistical table, shewing the progress of its population ; social, pastoral, agricultural, mineral, commercial & financial state from its beginning to this date, the whole forming the Eastern Provinces of Australia."
"Each section is preceded by a ... map of the relevant State and followed by a ... statistical table, except ... Queensland. The last map is of North Australia."--Ferguson.
Variant and related titles
Proeschel's atlas of Australia
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 14432
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Maps.
Atlases.
Also listed under
Australia Victoria.
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