Map Walker John (3 results)

Leather. 1st Edition. 1st ed., Volume 2, octavo, full leather binding, gilt decoration to spine, gilt titled red leather spine label, maps, pp (viii), 334. Complete with all 11 maps. Some rubs and scrapes boards, trace of water damage corners of endpapers, foxing to first page of Nile report, also to maps of Africa and Egypt, light staining to margins (only) of New South Wales map. The map of Western Australia in near fine conditon. Amorial bookplate of J.T. Williamson. Very good condition. Maps include John Walker's large folding map of Western Australia whic accompanies Recent Information from Australia with a despatch from Lieut-Governor James Stirling describing the Swan River district, 2 April 1832, and Arrowsmith's large folding map of New South Wales to accompany Allan Cunningham's report of exploration of the interior. Also included: a letter from Captain FitzRoy regarding the Abrolhos Islands, and maps of North Africa, the Egyptian desert, British Guiana, the Maldives, the mouth of the Ganges river, New Zealand, the Virgin Islands, the Upper Nile, west Africa.

Engraved map in triptych, on laid paper, 20.1 x 32.7 cm, three insets: cross section of the north side of Queen Charlotte's Islands (Solomon Islands) with detail of a volcano "6 leagues North"; Swallow's Bay Harbour; and Byron's Harbour, early hand colour, trimmed to the plate mark at the top edge, neat sealed tear affecting the publisher's caption, slight edge wear and paper toning, but a most attractive map in very good condition. Attractive engraving of the Queen Charlotte's Islands (Solomon Islands). The Islands were named for the consort of King George III, by Philip Carteret, the British naval officer and explorer who participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764?66 and 1766?69. His ship the Swallow gave her name to the Bay, and Carteret's commanding officer on the first of his voyages, John Byron, to the Harbour, depicted in this most attractive early chart.

Engraved map on laid paper, 21.4 x 33.7 cm, inset of Gower's, Simson's and Carteret's Island, early outline hand colour, trimmed to the plate mark at the top edge, three small edge tears affecting the upper margin only, slight paper toning, but a most attractive map in very good condition. Fine impression of the Queen Charlotte's Islands (Solomon Islands). It features the Swallow's track, the ship's route taken by Captain Philip Carteret in 1767, the British naval officer and explorer who participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764?66 and 1766?69.