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Details 1892 Rand McNally Map of New Zealand, Tasmania, and Fiji
1892 (dated) $150.00

1892 Rand McNally Map of New Zealand, Tasmania, and Fiji

NewZealand-randmcnally-1895
$75.00
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1892 Rand McNally Map of New Zealand, Tasmania, and Fiji

NewZealand-randmcnally-1895


Title


Map of New Zealand, Tasmania, and the Fiji Islands.
  1892 (dated)     20.5 x 13 in (52.07 x 33.02 cm)     1 : 3500000

Description


This is a beautiful example of Rand McNally and Company's 1892 map of New Zealand. It covers It covers the entire island country from Cape Reinga (C. Maria Van Diemen) to Stewart Island. An inset map in the upper left quadrant details Tasmania while another inset below details King Island. Two insets of the Fiji Islands and Chatham Islands are featured in the lower right quadrant. This map was drawn just one year before New Zealand became the world's first country to grant voting rights to all women. The map is color coded according to regions, and notes several towns, cities, rivers, mountains and various other topographical details with relief shown by hachure. This map was issued as plate no. 159 in the 1895 issue of Rand McNally and Company's Indexed Atlas of the World - possibly the finest atlas Rand McNally ever issued.

Cartographer


Rand, McNally and Co. (fl. 1856 - present) is an American publisher of maps, atlases and globes. The company was founded in 1856 when William H. Rand, a native of Quincy, Massachusetts, opened a print shop in Chicago. Rand hired the recent Irish immigrant Andrew McNally to assist in the shop giving him a wage of 9 USD per week. The duo landed several important contracts, including the Tribune's (later renamed the Chicago Tribune) printing operation. In 1872, Rand McNally produced its first map, a railroad guide, using a new cost effective printing technique known as wax process engraving. As Chicago developed as a railway hub, the Rand firm, now incorporated as Rand McNally, began producing a wide array of railroad maps and guides. Over time, the firm expanded into atlases, globes, educational material, and general literature. By embracing the wax engraving process, Rand McNally was able to dominate the map and atlas market, pushing more traditional American lithographic publishers like Colton, Johnson, and Mitchell out of business. Eventually Rand McNally opened an annex office in New York City headed by Caleb S. Hammond, whose name is today synonymous with maps and atlases, and who later started his own map company, C. S. Hammond & Co. Both firms remain in business. More by this mapmaker...

Source


Rand McNally & Co., Foreign Countries. Rand, McNally & Co's Indexed Atlas of the World (Complete in Two Volumes)…, (Chicago) 1895.    

Condition


Very good. Text on verso.

References


Rumsey 3565.042 (1897 edition). Philip (atlases) 1026 (1898 edition).