Western Australia, Swan River. Original antique map published in 1851 by Tallis. With original hand colouring. Vignettes by Wray and Lacey.

Original antique steel engraved map.

With original hand-colour.

Published by John Tallis, 1851.

No centre fold.

A decorative and detailed mid 19th century map which was drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin with vignette engravings by A H Wray and W Lacey. Published for John Tallis’s “Illustrated Atlas”. The “Illustrated Atlas”, published in 1851, was the last decorative world atlas.

John Tallis (1817 – 1876) was an English cartographic publisher. His company, John Tallis & Company, published views, maps and atlases in 1838 to 1851.

Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842. The business moved to Smithfield in 1846, and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis & Company.