HAM, Thomas (1821-1870). A Map of Australia Felix, compiled & carefully revised from the Colonial Government Surveys, Crown Lands Commissioners & Explorers Maps, Private Surveys . Melbourne: 1847. Engraved map (470 x 735mm to outer borders of latitude and longitude), to the scale of 20 miles to one inch (1:1,267,200), hand-coloured in outline, dissected and mounted on linen. (Light even browning and soiling.)
HAM, Thomas (1821-1870). A Map of Australia Felix, compiled & carefully revised from the Colonial Government Surveys, Crown Lands Commissioners & Explorers Maps, Private Surveys . Melbourne: 1847. Engraved map (470 x 735mm to outer borders of latitude and longitude), to the scale of 20 miles to one inch (1:1,267,200), hand-coloured in outline, dissected and mounted on linen. (Light even browning and soiling.) VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF HAM ' S FIRST MAP, PRINTED IN MELBOURNE . It shows various important boundaries including 'The Present Boundary' which was to become the boundary of the colony of Victoria when it separated from New South Wales in 1851, as well as 'Proposed (& Original) Boundary' which skirts much further north along the Murrumbidgee River. Not in Tooley, The Mapping of Australia , but see Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers (2001) II, p.257. ONLY 4 COPIES CAN BE TRACED IN INSTITUTIONS , all of which are in Australia (NLA, State Library of NSW, State Library of Victoria, University of Melbourne, and Macquarie University). According to ABPC/RBH, ONLY ONE COPY HAS SOLD AT AUCTION IN THE PAST 40 YEARS (these rooms 22 November 2002, lot 319). Sold without the extremely rare accompanying 15pp. 12° text, Key to the map of Australia Felix and its squatting districts .
HAM, Thomas (1821-1870). A Map of Australia Felix, compiled & carefully revised from the Colonial Government Surveys, Crown Lands Commissioners & Explorers Maps, Private Surveys . Melbourne: 1847. Engraved map (470 x 735mm to outer borders of latitude and longitude), to the scale of 20 miles to one inch (1:1,267,200), hand-coloured in outline, dissected and mounted on linen. (Light even browning and soiling.)
HAM, Thomas (1821-1870). A Map of Australia Felix, compiled & carefully revised from the Colonial Government Surveys, Crown Lands Commissioners & Explorers Maps, Private Surveys . Melbourne: 1847. Engraved map (470 x 735mm to outer borders of latitude and longitude), to the scale of 20 miles to one inch (1:1,267,200), hand-coloured in outline, dissected and mounted on linen. (Light even browning and soiling.) VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF HAM ' S FIRST MAP, PRINTED IN MELBOURNE . It shows various important boundaries including 'The Present Boundary' which was to become the boundary of the colony of Victoria when it separated from New South Wales in 1851, as well as 'Proposed (& Original) Boundary' which skirts much further north along the Murrumbidgee River. Not in Tooley, The Mapping of Australia , but see Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers (2001) II, p.257. ONLY 4 COPIES CAN BE TRACED IN INSTITUTIONS , all of which are in Australia (NLA, State Library of NSW, State Library of Victoria, University of Melbourne, and Macquarie University). According to ABPC/RBH, ONLY ONE COPY HAS SOLD AT AUCTION IN THE PAST 40 YEARS (these rooms 22 November 2002, lot 319). Sold without the extremely rare accompanying 15pp. 12° text, Key to the map of Australia Felix and its squatting districts .
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