Johnson?s Australia and East Indies, with New Zealand, c.1874.

$395.00

Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Farther India antique map.

Decorative well-defined antique map of Australia, Indonesia, East Indies and Farther India to the north, with New Zealand (inset) at lower left. Published by Alvin Jewitt Johnson, New York circa 1874. (Previously Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by A.J. Johnson in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.)

This beautiful colour-printed steel-engraved map has a stylish border in the manner of Colton publishers. In 1859 Colton sold their map plates to Alvin Jewitt Johnson, who continued to publish in the Colton style until 1885.

580 x 430 to border. Page size is 675 x 460mm – with horizontal fold at centre to accommodate inclusion in a publication half the size of the map.