F.E. Hiscocks & Co’s Map of Victoria Being a Reference Map to their Victorian Counties Atlas, Showing..

Scarce large scale detailed map of Victoria from the first county atlas published of the state. Roads, railways and ‘Gold Workings’ are marked. Hiscock’s important map records the colony a generation after the first gold discoveries.

This map is notoriously difficult to find without extensive tears due to it been folded multiple times. This example has very minor condition issues and is one of the best we have seen for many years.

Hiscock stated for prospective purchaser of their atlas, the following;

‘This Atlas is the first of the kind ever produced in the colony, and will be thoroughly authentic to date of publication. It will be found eminently useful to the Merchant and Squatter as a work of reference, and to the school master or man of family it is best means extant of furnishing the rising generation of the colony with a thorough geographical knowledge of Victoria’. (June 1874)

From, F.E. Hiscock & Co’s New Victorian Counties Atlas.

Collections:
State Library Victoria: MAPS 820 A 1874 HISCOCKS