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C1863
Australien und Polynesien in Mercators Projection.
Detailed map of Australia and the Pacific with an inset at lower left of mountains and a colour key of colonial possessions. From Stieler’s, A. Hand Atlas. Gotha, Germany. Collections: National Library Australia: Bib ID 6850116 (1871 edition) State Library Victoria: SLV_VOYAGER3661362 … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Australien und Polynesien in Mercators Projection.
Date:
C1863
Condition:
In good condition, with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
385mm
x 300mm
Paper Size:
447mm
x 365mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1863
Description:
Detailed map of Australia and the Pacific with an inset at lower left of mountains and a colour key of colonial possessions.
From Stieler’s, A. Hand Atlas. Gotha, Germany.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 6850116 (1871 edition)
State Library Victoria: SLV_VOYAGER3661362
State Library New South Wales: R.I. 74VKVELObVlg
Johann Friedrich von Stulpnagel (1786 - 1865)
German cartographer whose father was a Prussian infantry captain. When the war broke out in 1812/13 , he joined the 1st Baden Infantry Regiment of Count Wilhelm von Hochberg's brigade as a lieutenant. In 1822 an ear ailment that caused almost total deafness forced him to request his departure from the army. Since he had little wealth and little income, he moved to Wandersleben and in 1823 became a draftsman in the geographic institute of Justus Perthes in Gotha . There he worked with the cartographer Adolf Stieler on the continuation and improvement of his " Handatlas over all parts of the world " , which appeared for the first time in the years 1817–1823 . On September 10, 1835, Stulpnagel was finally retired from the army and received a pension as a captain. After Adolf Stieler's death in 1836, he moved to Gotha and continued the map series of his predecessor at Perthes in association with Heinrich Berghaus and Joseph Christoph Bar.
