A Chart Exhibiting the Actual and Comparative Size of Each Country, Nation, or Kingdom; its Population as a Whole and to a Square Mile: Also the Different States of Society, Forms of Government, Religion, &c.
(Philadelphia). (W. Marshall). (Circa 1835). Stock ID #203763 Eurocentrism laid bare. This 19th Century map includes a "State of Society" for each part of the world declared with a symbol to represent "Barbarous, Half Civilized, Civilized and Enlightened Societies" as well as noting religion and ethnicity. It includes a table of distances between chief towns or capitals and between these towns and Washington DC. Australia, "New Holland" is styled principally as pagan, barbarous, unexplored and African, a thin sliver of what is now New South Wales and Victoria is labelled civilized, European and Protestant. Scarce. When referring to this item please quote stockid 203763.
Handcoloured engraved map, 26.5 x 41.3 cms; 29.6 x 48.3 cms (sheet), central fold, insets of "Oceanica" and "New Holland", central table, some light staining in the image and margins, in good condition.
Price: $275.00 AU