1888 general map of NSW Picturesque atlas pub. co.

The map is 65cm x 43cm and has 1 slight tear which does not go on to the actual map itself, only on border in the fold crease. 

This large lithograph layered coloured original map antique of NSW was engraved in 1888 was published in the extremely significant Australian & New Zealand publication The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia between 1886-88. Also includes an index to the map on the verso giving names and locations of places on the map.
These maps were some of the best maps published at the time in the "Modern" look. The colour is bright, the engraving extremely fine and the paper heavy and stable.

The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia was published in Sydney between 1886-88. Many of its over 700 wood-engraved illustrations were specially commissioned works by leading Australian artists.
It was released in 42 separate editions usually bound into three large volumes and sold a remarkable 50,000 copies.

There were only 30 maps in the Atlas's 800 pages, but there were hundreds of pictures.

Its publication was one of the most significant cultural projects in nineteenth-century Australia. Writers, artists, academics and politicians came together to prepare a book of unprecedented grandeur and ambition, and a publishing company was established to produce and publish it. The seven hundred engravings on steel and wood contained in the Picturesque Atlas were among the finest engravings to be found anywhere in the world at this time.

The Atlas was a collegial project, staffed by a large number of artists and garnering an unusual number of contributors for one work. Lightly supervised by the former Sydney Morning Herald editor Andrew Garran it was lavishly produced at the Wynyard Square headquarters of the Atlas company. It had the services of the Melburnian journalist and public figure James Smith who wrote much of the Victorian and Tasmanian material, and W.H. Traill wrote extensively about Queensland. It was not, of course, an Atlas is the usual sense of the word, maps playing a comparatively minor role. 
 

I have other maps for sale also and happy to combine postage

can also email more photos if needed.

International buyers please confirm postage costs.