Atlas of the settled counties of New South Wales this valuable series is complete in nineteen numbers, with the addition of a road and distance map of the entire colony : these maps have been compiled with great care from the latest government surveys; the mineral information has been obtained from the government survey and others; and the geographical and geological information from the works of the following authors, viz.: Wentworth, Lang, Hovel and Hume, Bennett, Mitchell, Wells, the Rev. W.B. Clarke and W. Wilkins. - Basch & Co.; Bishop, George, active 1857-; Lenthall Bros. (Sydney : Basch & Co., 1872)
Reference to the settled counties: 1. Cumberland -- 2. Cook -- 3. Camden -- 4. Northumberland -- 5. Hunter -- 6. Roxburgh -- 7. Westmoreland -- 8. Georgiana -- 9. Argyle -- 10. St. Vincent -- 11. Murray -- 12. King -- 13. Bathurst -- 14. Wellington -- 15. Phillip -- 16. Bligh -- 17. Brisbane -- 18. Durham -- 19. Gloucester -- 20. Road map.
"This atlas is the first that has ever been produced in the Colony ...".
Atlas of maps of the counties of New South Wales drawn circa 1868. These maps show the principal postal towns with their populations and distances from Sydney and include villages, roads, rivers and creeks, telegraphs, railways, dividing ranges, height and position of the main mountains, agricultural data such as type of growing districts, mines and mineral deposits. Relief is shown by hachures.
Ferguson notes: Maps drawn by George Bishop while he was draftsman in Surveyor-General's Office, 1866-1870.
Includes printed information in margins.
On each map: Lenthall Bros, Lith.
Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia
Keywords: Counties -- New South Wales -- Maps; Roads -- New South Wales -- Maps; Atlases -- Australia; New South Wales -- Maps; Australian; Atlases