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C1917
Map of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Mapmaker:
Herbert Edward Cooper Robinson (1857 - 1933)
Large scale cased map of Australia, measuring 1400mm x 1445mm, dissected into sixty sections and laid on linen as issued. This 4th edition includes the Transcontinental Railway for the first time which connected Perth to Port Augusta. The line was … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Map of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Date:
C1917
Mapmaker:
Herbert Edward Cooper Robinson (1857 - 1933)
Condition:
Covers worn, otherwise in good condition, dissected and laid on linen as issued.
Technique:
Lithograph printed in colour.
Image Size:
1445mm
x 1400mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1917
Description:
Large scale cased map of Australia, measuring 1400mm x 1445mm, dissected into sixty sections and laid on linen as issued. This 4th edition includes the Transcontinental Railway for the first time which connected Perth to Port Augusta. The line was completed in 1917.
Robinson issued a reduced version of this map which is much more common.
No edition of this map in Trove
Mapmaker:
Herbert Edward Cooper Robinson (1857-1933)
Robinson was a founder of the (Royal) Geographical Society of Australasia in 1885, a member of the Geographical Society of New South Wales in the late 1920s and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London. He made many valuable contributions to geographical science and was a delegate to the 1923 Sydney Regional Plan Convention. A friend and technical collaborator of Professor Sir Edgeworth David, he helped to produce David’s monumental large-scale Geological Map of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1932. His draughtsmen also produced the maps for Donald Mackay’s important aerial surveys of Australia from 1930.
