1845 Johnston Large Antique Map of New South Wales & Victoria, Australia Felix American Indians Wetzlar and Frankfurt

Wetzlar and Frankfurt

The SDUK produced two landmark volumes of cartography in the first half of the 19th century

but the trees in the foreground have now obscured the view

although the labels of rivers placed in order of stream flow are helpful to modern day cartographers

when the High Court of Australia held in Mabo v Queensland (No 2) that the legal doctrine that Australia had been terra nullius (land belonging to no one) did not apply to Australia at the time of British settlement

1845 Johnston Large Antique Map of New South Wales & Victoria, Australia Felix American Indians Wetzlar and FrankfurtTitle : Colony of New South Wales and Australia Felix Ref #: 35088 Size: 25 1 2in x 21in (650mm x 535mm) Date : 1845 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This large fine hand coloured original antique map of NSW & SE Australia stretching from the 10 year old Settlement of Melbourne in the south to the 31st parallel in the north, by W & AK Johnston, was published in the 1845 edition of the General Atlas. A large, highly detailed regional map of