The Mapping of Australia (First Edition)

First edition of a seminal work in Australian cartography.

The Mapping of Australia, published in 1979 as the inaugural volume in the Holland Press Cartographica series, brings together, in a single alphabetically organised reference work, the substance of the Author's own earlier and more specialised publications on the subject, supplemented with new material, and is illustrated throughout with 239 full-page plates reproducing the maps under discussion.

Ronald Vere Tooley (1898–1986) is widely regarded as the founder of the modern antiquarian map trade. He founded the Map Collectors' Circle in 1963, publishing through it a long series of monographs on historical cartography, and his personal collection of Australian maps and charts was ultimately purchased by the National Library of Australia in 1973, where it remains held today as the Tooley Collection, digitised and fully catalogued.

First edition, trade issue. Volume I in the Holland Press Cartographica series. Large, thick octavo. xix, 633 pp. 239 full-page plates of maps throughout; index by Douglas Matthews. Publisher's full green cloth boards. Gilt lettering to black spine labels. Printed paste-on and free endpapers, illustrated with maps. Original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Jacket spine a bit tanned with some water staining to lower spine and some rubbing at crease edges, generally in very good order, though. Volume binding sound. Some toning and foxing to upper edge of text block, very mild foxing to other edges. Internally, volume is clean and bright.

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Catalogue Number: HH000233