The New Counties Hundreds & District Atlas of South Australia and Northern Territory 1876.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

Together with Map of South Australia indicating Roads Distances relative position of Counties &c &c. Showing - All Boroughs Post Towns Villages Hamlets ... The maps are compiled ... by Kind permission of G.W. Goyder Esq. Surveyor-General. The statistical matter ... by J. Boothby. (Dedicated) to His Excellency Sir Anthony Musgrave ... Governor of South Australia ... by F.E. Hiscocks & Co. Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1876. Folio. Comprising 26 large unfolded hand-col. maps (with Map 26 in 2 Sheets) and text (II224pp.) with pp.17/18 supplied in photo facsimile. Both the text and maps are loose and have never been bound. Preserved in large cloth portfolio with flaps and ties and with captioned titling-label on front cover. Complete with additional text leaves/adverts. not cited by Ferguson. Rare. F.7981/7982. NOTE: This Atlas is the first ever produced in the Colony.