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C1849
Neu Sud-Wales
Scarce, detailed c.19th hand coloured lithographed map of New South Wales, showing the ‘nineteen counties’, extending from Trial Bay in the north to Moruya in the south, with an inset of Sydney at lower right. The original nineteen counties in New … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Neu Sud-Wales
Date:
C1849
Condition:
Faint crease at lower left, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving with original hand colouring
Image Size:
325mm
x 395mm
Paper Size:
350mm
x 418mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1849
Description:
Scarce, detailed c.19th hand coloured lithographed map of New South Wales, showing the ‘nineteen counties’, extending from Trial Bay in the north to Moruya in the south, with an inset of Sydney at lower right.
The original nineteen counties in New South Wales were defined by Governor Darling’s Government in 1826. In addition the new county of Macquarie created in 1830 and named in honour of Governor Lachlan Macquarie (1762–1824) has been added. The Bogan river here name by John Oxley New Years Creek on 1 January 1829. The limits of location in the colony of New South Wales where settlers were permitted to take up land was only within the Governments defined as the, Nineteen Counties, and limits to settlement were due to the dangers in the wilderness. They were defined by the Governor of New South Wales Ralph Darling in 1826 in accordance with a government order from Lord Bathurst, the Secretary of State. Counties had been used since the first year of settlement, with Cumberland County being proclaimed on 6th June 1788. Several others were later proclaimed around the Sydney area. Darling proclaimed the division of the settlement into Nineteen Counties in the Sydney Gazette of 17 October 1829. From 1831 the granting of free land ceased and the only land that was to be made available for sale was within the Nineteen Counties. The area covered by the limit, extended to Taree in the north, Batemans Bay in the south and Wellington to the West.
The counties were; Argyle, Bathurst, Bligh, Brisbane, Camden, Cook, Cumberland, Durham, Georgiana, Gloucester, Hunter, King, Murray, Northumberland, Phillip, Roxburgh, St Vincent, Westmoreland, Wellington.
From: Vollstandiger Universal-Handatlas der neueren Erdbeschreibung uber alle Theile der Erde
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 901716
National Library Australia: Bib ID 901716
Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus (1797 - 1884)
German geographer and cartographer who conducted trigonometric surveys in Prussia and taught geodesy at the Bauakademie in Berlin. He taught cartography and produced a pioneering and influential thematic atlas which provided maps of flora, fauna, climate, geology, diseases and a range of other information. A nephew Hermann Berghaus also worked in cartography. He was trained as a surveyor, and after volunteering for active service under General Tauentzien in 1813, joined the staff of the Prussian trigonometrical survey in 1816. He carried on a geographical school at Potsdam where he trained Heinrich Lange, August Heinrich Petermann, his nephew Hermann Berghaus and others, and long held the professorship of applied mathematics at the Bauakademie.
