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C1869
Whitehead’s New Map of Victoria 1869.
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A rare example of Whitehead’s 1869 map of Victoria in its original embossed case. Map of Victoria with gold mining areas, notes on topography, transport routes and list of towns with distance from Melbourne in map margin. When E. Whitehead’s … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Whitehead’s New Map of Victoria 1869.
Date:
C1869
Mapmaker:
Condition:
Covers in unusually good condition, the map with unfaded original hand colouring, minor creasing as usual.
Technique:
Cased in brown embossed cloth with gilt title on cover.
Image Size:
115mm
x 180mm
Paper Size:
743mm
x 503mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1869
Description:
A rare example of Whitehead’s 1869 map of Victoria in its original embossed case.
Map of Victoria with gold mining areas, notes on topography, transport routes and list of towns with distance from Melbourne in map margin.
When E. Whitehead’s New Map of Victoria was released in 1869, an advertisement in the Bendigo Advertiser (16 July 1869) noted that: “This beautifully engraved Map has been revised and brought down to the present time; and, with the Alphabetical Key, is the most complete and the cheapest Map ever published; Price, 6d plain; 1s colored; 2s 6d in case; on linen, post free, 2d extra. E.. WHITEHEAD and CO, Publishers, 67 Collins-street east.”Significance
Whitehead’s New Map of Victoria 1869 is is an important record of region created towards the end of the Victorian Gold Rush (1851-1869). In addition to its historical significance, this is a rare map, of which the only known copies in Australian public collections are those held at the National Library of Australia, the State Library of Victoria, State Library of New South Wales and the University of Queensland Library.
Collections:
State Library Victoria: MAPS 820 A 1869
National Library Australia: Bib ID: 2027802
State Library New South Wales: 991013968449702626
State Library Queensland: 993562254702061 (1883 3dition)
State Library Victoria: MAPS 820 A 1869
National Library Australia: Bib ID: 2027802
State Library New South Wales: 991013968449702626
State Library Queensland: 993562254702061 (1883 3dition)
Edward Whitehead ( - )
Printer and publisher active in Melbourne during the latter half of the c.19th. Whitehead founded his printing business at 67 Collins Street East in 1864 and, though not focused on maps, began publishing his own series of maps of Victoria in 1867. He focussed on producing highly detailed folding maps of Victoria which included a very detailed index of place names. His series of maps of Victoria became one of the most successful and most profitable series of regional maps of Australia ever produced.
