Atlas of the Settled Counties of New South Wales….

Colouring: Coloured

Condition: Fair

Confirmed: No

Description: This atlas, the first of its kind produced in the colony, comprises twenty colour maps, including a folded map, detailing various counties and a general road map. It illustrates principal postal towns (with populations and distances from Sydney), villages, roads, rivers, creeks, telegraphs, railways, dividing ranges, major mountains, agricultural data, mines, and mineral deposits. The maps were drawn by George Bishop while he was a draftsman in the Surveyor-Generals Office between 1866 and 1870. Noted by Ferguson as a landmark in colonial cartography, the atlas reflects the administrative, agricultural, and infrastructural development of New South Wales in the late nineteenth century.

First published: Atlas of the Settled Counties of New South Wales. Sydney: Basch & Co., 1872.

Mapmaker: Basch & Co

Notes: Purchase details

Primary Category: Book/Atlas

References: Ferguson, John Alexander. Bibliography of Australia. Vol. 6, 18511900 (HP). Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1965. Entry no. 6783.

Sheet size (cm): 42.5×27

This state: 1872