Tallis' Map of Victoria Printed Area Measurement_25 x 35 cm

Tallis' Map of Victoria Printed Area Measurement_25 x 35 cmVictoria or Port Phillip Engraved by John Rapkin for the Illustrated Atlas, this map includes vignettes of Melbourne, the River Glenelg, a kangaroo and Aboriginal Australians engraved by John Rogers after H Warren. The map was engraved in 1851, the year in which the Port Philip District was separated from New South Wales to become Victoria. A variant state of the map captions the vignette of Melbourne as Port Phillip, but this may have been a simple

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1727 and the Harvard copy has been attributed to John Bowles

25 x 33 cm

and Mandchouria

A likely candidate for the latter is Yorkshire naturalist and geologist William Bean (1787-1866) who sold his collection of fossils to the British Museum and Yorkshire Philosophical Society

Admired and encouraged by David Hume and Horace Walpole

Their careers did not overlap: Percy Padden was prominent in the interwar period

but it was not a financial success

It was advertised for sale in the June 1844 issue of The Publisher’s Circular

with joints

reissued in 1712 and 1727

we learn that horse-racing is a ‘cruel diversion’