Part of South Australia

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Steel engraving, hand colored in outline and wash. The fine engraved map is showing a part of South Australia from Lake Torrens to Kangaroo Island, with place names and named features, showing counties and mining districts. Mapping of the coast from Elliston in the west to the Coorong in the east, and from Kangaroo Island in the south to Mt. Deception in the north. The map is decorated with five finely hand colored engraved vignettes: a view of Adelaide with Aboriginals in the foreground, a dingo or Australian dog, a nymphicus (parrot), natives on a catamaran and the Seal of South Australia. The actual map was drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin. The illustrations were engraved by various artists: R. Radclyffe, W. Lacy, J. Rogers, J. H. Kernot, J. B. Allen, T. Fleming, H. Winkles, R. Baker after drawings by H. Warren, H. Winkles and H. Wray.