NATAL AND KAFRARIA
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Original steel engraved map with original outline hand colouring. Two vignette views that includes Port Natal and Durban. Decorated border.Original outline colour.
Very good condition.
code : M2905
Cartographer : Tallis John
Date : 1850c
Size : 36*27.5 cms
availability : Sold
Price : Sold
TALLIS, John
active 1838-1851
John Tallis founder of Tallis and Co., London map publishers who traded under various names: L. Tallis, Tallis & co, John Tallis, John Tallis & co. (London & New York) between 1838 and 1851. After 1850-51, their maps were published by the London Printing and Publishing Co., London and New York.
The Illustrated Atlas of the World, published in 1849 with the maps and decorative vignette's engraved and drawn by J. Rapkin, was one of the last atlases to be truly decorated and is therefore highly prized.
