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Ruess & Browne's Map of New South Wales and part of Queensland
Shewing the Relative Positions of the Pastoral Runs Squattages Districts Counties Towns Reserves &c. - Map of the Pastoral Runs Counties Rivers Reserves and Roads of New South Wales and Queensland.
Sydney,
Compiled Drawn and Published on Mercator's Projection by F.H. Reuss & J.L. Browne Surveyors & Architects 134 Pitt Street,
[1860].
Folding lithographed map, dissected and laid down on linen, with contemporary hand-colour in full.
1095 by 1290mm (43 by 50.75 inches).
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The map includes a vignette of Australia, with Queensland shown as a separate state, only recently ratified as such in December of 1860. It is also an example of John Degotardi's pioneering photo-lithography, who is considered "the first Australian to realize the possibilities promised by the association of photography with printing. His pamphlet on printing, 'The Art of Printing in its Various Branches' (1861) contains a long and sincere panegyric on photography ending "Ph...
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