Australasia and the principal islands of Malaysia
- Bib ID:
- 8034790
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale 1:34,848,000. 550 miles to 1 in. (E 110°00ʹ00ʺ--E 170°00ʹ00ʺ/N 20°00ʹ00ʺ--S 50°00ʹ00ʺ).
- Description:
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- [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : [Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.], [1855]
- 1 map : colour ; 14.7 x 12.3 cm, on sheet 18.7 x 15.0 cm
- Notes:
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- Map of Australia, New Zealand, island Southeast Asia and the western Pacific. Relief shown by hachures.
- Pages 133 and 134 a chapter entitled 'Oceanica' in an unidentified edition of Mitchell's primary geography: an easy introduction to the study of geography, designed for the instruction of children in school and families, first published 1843. Appears to be prior to the fourth revised edition published by E. H. Butler and Co., in 1861, which shows Brisbane and Queensland. Page 133 includes illustration of 'Missionary preaching to the natives of New Zealand', and four numbered paragraphs from the chapter: 7. Polynesia; 8. Oceanica; 9. The first yoyage; 10. Captain James Cook; followed by 4 questions, one on each topic.
- Shows a strip of North Australia as separating West Australia from South Australia. Shows New South Wales and Victoria, but not Queensland or Brisbane. New Zealand's islands labelled New Ulster, New Munster and New Leinster. 'Gold region' labelled on the Victoria-New South Wales border. Lake Torrens shown in South Australia. 'Swan River colony' named in Western Australia.
- Shows longitude east of Greenwich in top margin, and west of Washington in bottom margin.
- National Library of Australia's copy has handwritten annotation by vendor on verso: 1855, Phila - Cowp. R15287.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1063058106
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1855
- Other authors/contributors:
- Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1868
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1855
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