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Edwin and Karen Clark are the longest established vendors of Antique Maps and Prints in Queensland.
                                                                                      Since 1989
Antique listings only. No reproductions are listed.
Orbis Veteribus Noti Tabula Nova.
Antique copper plate engraving with later hand colouring.
Published by Guillaume de L'Isle (1675-1726)
The 18th map of the eastern Hemisphere by de L'Isle, with Australia shown according to the two voyages of Able Tasman 1642-44.
From "Atlas nouveau , contenant toutes les Guillaume de L'Isle."

Framed size. 62 x 63 cm   $600
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Map of Australia
Compiled from the Nautical Surveys made by the order of the Admiralty.. (Above)

Antique engraving (steel plate) with original and later hand colouring.
Published by James Wyld, London, 1844.
Intensely informative due the size and publishing date of this map.
 In Queensland there are no towns north of Maryborough. Pre dates Toowoomba/Drayton.
Published two years after Brisbane ceased being a convict station.

Framed size. 98 x 71 cm.  $1,100
Brisbane in 1866.   (Below)
Antique woodcut with later hand colouring.
Published “Illustrated London News”   1866.
View is from Wickham Tce.
The Mary McKillop church (the third oldest building in Brisbane is visible)
Framed size.  84 x 27 cm.  $500 + PP
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BRISBANE.
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Queensland Electoral Districts. Oxley.   Brisbane. (above)
Antique chromo-lithograph. Published , By the Government of Queensland. Brisbane . 1887.
Suburbs shown include amongst others, Fig Tree Pocket, Chelmer, Corinda, Granville, Indroopilly, Annerley, Fairfield, St Lucia, Rocklea, south to Goodna. North to Mt Cootha.
Framed size.  87 x 69 cm.   $600.
Minor imperfections on the north  and eastern margin. Virtually no loss of any of the image.
Structurally restored using conservation principals for long term display by Queensland’s
Longest established antique map and print vendor.

Australia.   (Below)

Antique cerograph (engraving on wax) with original hand colouring.  Published by  Morse, Sidney Edwards in 1856.  “General Atlas of the World”.        Reference.  Phillips (Atlases) #817.
Published three years before the advent of Queensland the map shows “North Australia”.  This was based on a short lived effort to reintroduce British convicts into an “unoccupied area”. that would not attract objections. A change of Government in the British Isles resulted in the withdrawal of the convicts. (Based at Gladstone).
Framed size 48 x 53 cm
​$275
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TOOWOOMBA.   Below
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Queensland Electoral Districts. Drayton and Toowoomba.  1887.   (Above).   Under that is a detailed section.
Map showing property owners, ie electors of the city as well as some dimensions of
the proprieties.
One of the rare electoral maps stocked by this vendor.
Framed size. 85 x 67 cm.    $500.
IPSWICH.  below.
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Ipswich Electoral Districts.  1887.   (Above)
Antique chromo-lithograph.  Published by the Government of Queensland.
Large framed map of the Ipswich area from 1887.
Searches of Australian Libraries by this vendor as well as
sites such as “Historical cadastral map series-Queensland” 
have revealed very little about this map.
It has been listed by the Queensland State Library, but no image is available.
All indications are that the map being offered is rare.
Shows land holders names, and dimensions of their properties.

$600
Framed size. 68 x 81 cm

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Europe 1764.   "Carte d'Europe Divisee en ses Empires et Roymes...", Clouet, Jean Baptiste Louis
Antique copper plate engraving with original outline colour and later hand colouring.
Intense detail for a copper plate. A great study from the period just before the use of accurate longitude.


Framed size.  83 x 65 cm
Price. $700 plus PP.
Free delivery in the Brisbane area.
Queensland Electoral Districts. Townsville.
Antique engraving with lithographic outline.
Published by the Government of Queensland.
Framed size.  65 x 82 cm
​$700
Rare restored map of Townsville.
Minor missing section, (replaced) creasing (repaired).
All information legible.
All research by the vendor indicates that this map is the only known copy
as neither the National Library in Canberra or any State Library in Australia
lists it in their collection. It is also not to be found in and commercial online listings.
Rockhampton.


1887.
Antique chromo-lithograph.
Published by the Government of Queensland.
Framed map of the Rockhampton area from 1887.
Searches of Australian Libraries by this vendor as well as
sites such as “Historical cadastral map series-Queensland” 
have revealed very little about this map.
It has been listed by the Queensland State Library, but no image is available.
All indications are that the map being offered is rare.
Shows land holders names, and dimensions of their property.
Framed Size.  56 x 75 cm   $400
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.Amérique Septentrionale.   (Above)

Antique engraving (copper plate) with later hand colouring.
Published by Rigobert Bonne,  c. 1780.

Source:
Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre
Indian tribes occupy the edges of defined territory, including Apaches, Sioux, Outagamis, 
and Assenipouels. The British Colonies and a few major cities are named along the eastern 
seaboard and in the Great Lakes region. Alaska is shown as a group of islands,
 the largest of which is labeled Alaschka
​$350. + p.p.

Framed size. 39 x 50 cm
New Zealand.   (Below)
Antique engraving (steel plate) with some original outline colouring and later hand colouring.
Published by A.K.Johnston,  Edinburg, c. 1853.
Center fold with light toning, otherwise in very good condition.
Framed size. 78 x 66 cm.   (3 kg).  $600 + PP
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Southport Street Plan.
Antique chromo-lithograph.
Published , Brisbane. 1899.
Size 45 x 36 cm.
Price.
$200.

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Principle Dutch Colonies in Indian Seas . Java. Borneo.  1860.  (Above)

Antique engraving (steel Plate) with later hand colouring.
Published by A. Fullerton and Co.London.
  $300
Framed size. 47 x 62 cm
Antique listings. No reproductions in this column
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A New and Accurate map of Africa.
Antique copper plate engraving with later hand colouring.
Published by Thomas Bowen, London, 1788.
Size. 61 x 52 cm framed.
Price. $495.00 + $70.00 PP.
Free delivery in the Brisbane district.

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Geological map of western Queensland.
By Robert Logan Jack. 1892.
​Antique lithograph printed in Queensland.
Structurally restored large map incorporating Mt. Isa , Hughenden, Boulia area.
Mt Isa is not on the map as it was founded in 1923.
Size. 77 x 101 cm matted.
​Price. $400.

Photographed wrapped in cellophane

Antique listings only. No reproductions in this column
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Queensland Census District 1876.  61 x 46 cm  $500. +pp. Rare.
Covering from where Camooweal now is to just west of Charters Towers, the map pre-dates the towns of Cloncurry, Julia Ck, Richmond, Croydon, Hughenden and of course Mt Isa. The total population (Europeans only) was 899 .
Detail of knowledge from that time includes limited sections of rivers and creeks.

Map of Cumberland.
SYDNEY DISTRICT.   (Below)
Antique chromo-lithograph.
Published by J. Sands. Sydney. 1886.
Framed size 59 x 71 cm
​$400
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Sydney Harbour Trust.
Birds Eye View showing new wharves and approaches
Jones Bay Pyrmont.
Published by the Government of New South Wales. 1919.
Antique chromo-lithograph.
Paper size 51 x 85 cm.
Will be posted in a tube.
​$1000.
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Norther Russia incorporating sections of Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Lithuania.   (Below)
Antique engraving (copper plate)
With some original outline colouring.
Published by W. Faden. London. 1808.
Paper size.  97 x 58. 
Sold, posted in a tube.
​$450. AUD + PP
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Detail sample of Northern Russia.
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Turkey in Asia.  (Below)
Antique engraving (copper plate) with original and later hand colouring.
Published by Laurie and Whittle, London , 1794.
Paper size. 79 x 57 cm.
Sold, posted in a tube.
​$500.

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Map of South Australia. (above)
Antique chromo-lithograph.
John Sands, 1886.
$275.00. + $70.00 pp.
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A wartime Map of Thursday Island. (1942)
50 x 61 cm
​Printed onto silk with wartime annotations.  $250.
​No restoration . Warts and all on this one.

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New South Wales.   (Above)
Antique (steel plate) engraving with original and later hand colouring.
Published by A. Black, Edinburgh, 1853.
Size. 41 x 53 cm framed.
$275. AUD

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Melbourne Area.          
Antique chromo-lithograph with later hand colouring.
Published by John Sands, 1886. (Bendigo is shown as Sandhurst.)
Price ..  $400.00. + $80.00 pp.
Edwin and Karen Clark are the longest established vendors of Antique Maps and Prints in Queensland.
                                                                                      Since 1989

Asie. (Below)
Antique engraving (copper plate) with later hand colouring.
Pub.  M. Bonne.  Paris. c. 1787 "Atlas Encyclopédique"
Size matted. 48 x 54 cm.
 $190 AUD. +pp. 

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Middle (sic) Island New Zealand.  
Antique chromo-lithograph.
Pub. A Garran. 1888.
Size 42 x 64cm
$200 AUD +pp.
This map and the Nt Island as a pair for $350 AUD.
​Small stain on L margin.

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CHINA.
“A New and Accurate Map of China.”  (Below)
Antique engraving (copper plate) with original and later hand colouring.
“Drawn from surveys made by the Jefuit (sic) Missionaries by order of the Emperor.”
Published by E. Bowen.   1747. The survey lasted from 1708-17.
Contains the first broadly accurate description of Korea on a western map.
A key at the bottom right provides the meaning of relevant Chinese words.
Framed size. 50 x 59 cm.  $700  + PP
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"Magna Britannia Complectens Angliae, Scotiae et Hyberniae Regn. in suas Prov. et Comitat. Divisa et ex Mappis Londinensibus..."
Antique engraving (copper plate) with original and later later hand colouring.
Published by Homann Heirs. c. 1720.
A table at the lower right includes symbols for cities, market towns, bishoprics, roads, ferries and bogs, among other places of note.
Framed size. 65 x 74 cm.   $725.

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Scotland.   (Below)
“Magnae Britannia Pars Septentrionalis qua Regnum 
Scotia in suas Partes et Subjacentes Insulas Divisum…'
Antique engraving with later hand colouring.
Pub. By Johann Baptist Homamm , circa 1720.
Framed size.  65 x 75 cm.  $800. + PP
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