CLA Auction 218

MAPS

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Lot Symbols Description Estimate
1778   AUSTRALIA:  TALLIS, John: "Part of South Australia", drawn and engraved by Rapkin, c1851, with vignettes of Adelaide, aborigines & dingo, hand-coloured steel engraving in archival mount, overall 43x53cm.   $150 - $250
1779   AUSTRALIA:  "Sands & McDougall's Map of Melbourne and Suburbs, showing Postal Districts, Tramways, Railways, Bowling Clubs, Town and Shire Halls", roll-up wall map [Melbourne, c1920]; plus album of post cards (58), mainly Scotland, Ireland & trams.  $100 - $120
1780   WORLD:  CHAMOUIN: "Mappe-monde sur diverses Projections", World map, [published Paris, 1805], hand-coloured copperplate engraving, showing twin hemisphere projection surrounded by five smaller projections: North, South, East, West and Mercator's; decorative pictorial title cartouche with Venus in a sea-shell and mermaids; window mounted, framed and glazed, overall 72x60cm.   $1400 - $1600
1781   WORLD:  "Mercator's Chart", by Lucas Fielding Jr. [Baltimore, 1823], hand-coloured copperplate engraving, window mounted, framed and glazed, overall 73x58cm.   $600 - $700