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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.
Enquiries:     eaclark@optusnet.com.au
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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. $870.00 plus PP.
Free delivery in the Brisbane area.
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Anglia et Hibernia Nova.
Ruscelli, Girolamo. Period. c.1562.

 Geographia Claudio Ptolemaei Alexandrini…. From the later section of the Geografia. It is adapted from George Lily's map of 1546 with distinct topographical features. The seas are stipple engraved in the Italian style. Latin text on verso. References: Mickwitz & Miekkavaara #217-5; Shirley (BI to 1650) & (MCC-94) #68
An antique copper plate engraving as published. This 450 year old map of the UK was printed some eighty years after the invention of copper plate engraving (early in the reign of Elizabeth the First), and around 50 years after the first map to use the word "America" (Waldseemuller, 1507). This century was the first to use the Mercator projection and the first to experience firearms dominating the battlefield.
Free delivery in the Brisbane area.
Framed size is  50 x 41 cm. UV Filtered glass. Acid free matting.
​$800 AUD plus P.P.


Anglia ii Nova Tabvla. (Below)
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Antique woodcut with later hand colouring.
Published by S. Munster c. 1540.
This early and unusual portrayal has North orientated to the left of the map. The woodblock map is filled with exaggerated topographical features with large castles denoting the cities. This map was a great improvement over previous maps of the region and showed for the first time several city names. At upper left, is a key to the Latin and English place names. the flags of both England and Scotland are shown.  Published in the life time of Henry the Eighth,
it pre-dates the industrial cities such as Liverpool and Birmingham.
References. Moreland and Banninster. pp 196-7
​Shirley (Bl to 1650)  # 28.
A receipt for 275  English pounds from MAP SELLERS LIMITED, 37 SOUTHAMPTON ST. LONDON, in 1975 is included. 
Framed size is 43 x 50 cm
​UV filtered glass and acid free matting used in the framing.
​$900 AUD plus shipping.
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Australasia.
Antique engraving with original outline colour as well as later hand colouring. By Sidney Hall, circa 1844 . 
Framed size 62 x 49 cm
Acid free materials used.
UV filtered glass.
Price. $500 plus pp $50.00
Free delivery in Brisbane area.




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​Australia.
Antique lithograph by Edward Weller.
Later hand colouring.
 From Weekly Dispatch Atlas, circa 1857 .  Lithography by Day & Son. 
Framed size 63 x 50 cm
Acid free materials.
​UV filtered glass.
Price. $600 plus pp $60.
Free delivery in Brisbane area.

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Southport Street Plan.
Antique chromo-lithograph.
Published , Brisbane. 1899.
Size 45 x 36 cm.
Price.
$200.

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Map of Queensland to accompany the Railway Commissioners report. 

Antique chromo-lithograph,
Published by the Government of Queensland .  1898.
Size 62 x 85 cm. Framed.
Price. $400.00 + PP. ($70.00)
​Free delivery in the Brisbane area. See below image for detailed description.

Antique listings. No reproductions in this column
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Detailed section from the above map.

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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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​PLAN of CAIRNS Harbour. (left). First page of the Government Report . (Below)
Initial research has this as the first printed chart of Cairns. (1878)
Restored antique lithograph with later hand colouring.
Framed size.  82 x 95cm
Price $900.00 + $150 pp.
Free delivery in the Brisbane area.

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The report accompanies the map above.

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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

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West Australia / Van Diemen Island. 1833
49 x 40 cm. matted.  $200 . This map is now offered UNFRAMED
Published in London off an engraved plate (steel) with original and later hand colouring.
In 1856, the name of Van Diemen Island was changed to Tasmania.

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.

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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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Cloncurry District. 1940. (above)
Unrestored government map showing the production ratios of different mines.
$100 as is.

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Melbourne Area.           (Above)
Antique chromo-lithograph with later hand colouring.
Published by John Sands, 1886. (Bendigo is shown as Sandhurst.)
Price ..  $400.00. + $80.00 pp.
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Map of Wales (Above)
Large map offered rolled in a tube.
C. 1867.
​$375.00 

Edwin and Karen Clark are the longest established vendors of Antique Maps and Prints in Queensland.
                                                                                      Since 1989

 Tab. Geogr: Asiae. (Below)
Pub. Euler L. Berlin c. 1752.
Original colour.
Framed size 54 x 48 cm
$425. AUD +pp.

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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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Electoral district Map  of central Brisbane. 1887.
Property owners of the period (with detail insert below)
Framed size 65 x 86 cm.
$400. AUD +pp.

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Tabula Europae. 111.  (left)
Antique engraving with later hand colouring.
Pub. Magini & Porro. 1617.
 Framed size. 33 x 38 cm
$170 AUD + pp

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Galliae Regnvm. 
(Map of France.)

Antique copper plate engraving with later hand colouring.
Pub. Magini $ Porro. 1617.
Matted size.30 x 25 cm
$100 AUD +pp

Trois Vues des Isles de L' Amiraute. No. 1. (Below)
Antique engraving with later hand colouring.
Pub. Paris. c. 1777.
Navigational profiles of the Manus Islands, PNG.
Matted size 26 x 48 cm.
$95 AUD +pp.

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New Zealand. (Below)
Antique engraving (steel plate) with later hand colouring.
Pub. J. Rapkin. 1854.
Size framed. 41 x 53 cm
$675 AUD +pp.

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North Island New Zealand.
Antique chromo-lithograph.
Pub. A Garran. 1888.
Size 42 x 64cm
$200 AUD +pp.
This map and the South Island as a pair for $350 AUD.

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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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A New Map of the World. (Below)
Antique (copper plate) engraving.
Pub. T. Kitchin c. 1797.
Framed size, 34 x 43 cm.
 $300 AUD. +pp

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Oceanique Orient.
Antique engraving (copper) with original hand colouring.
Pub. Lapie / Tardieu. c. 1809.
Ref; Tooley (Australia) #845.
Framed size. 42 x 50 cm.
$290 +pp.

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