Chapter 12

Early New Zealand Printed Maps

Additional maps published in atlases and journals before 1840

Edited

By 

 Brian Hooker

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This page contains Chapters 12  of Early New Zealand Printed Maps. For other chapters return to the list via Contents and the title in Section B or scroll down to the end of this page to go direct to the next Chapter.

NB.  The sub-headings provide the name of the engraver, surveyor or compiler, the year the map was prepared, the area, and the year of publication

A note about illustrations of maps: The illustrations are provided as a guide only - magnification is not always practicable with early maps that are often faded or smudgy. Some of the images have been copied from small photographs of large maps. However, in some examples enlargement in sections has been possible and a note in the caption indicates this.

(Continued from Chapter 11)

the following two maps were published by Philippe Vander Maelen (1795-1869), a nineteenth-century Brussels editor and publisher, in his Atlas Universel de Géographie Physique, ... 6 vols  (Bruxelles, 1827):

Brussels, F. Vander Maelen, North Island, 1827

Map Van 1  “Océanque.  Partie De la Nle.  Zélande. No.  59.”  (lith. c. 485 x 570 mm.) Published in,  Atlas Universel,  Brussels, 1827.

Brussels, F. Vander Maelen, South Island, 1827

Map Van 2  “Océanique. Partie De La Nle.  Zélande. No.  60.” (lith. c. 485 x 570 mm.) Published in,  Atlas Universel, Brussels, 1827.

Founded in 1830, the Royal Geographical Society began publishing The Journal in 1831. Maps which accompany papers published in 1841 and later, were prepared by John Arrowsmith, and are listed in Chapter 9. The first New Zealand map was published in 1832; the next entry provides the title and other details.

The Journal of The Royal Geographical Society, New Zealand, 1832

Map Roy 1  “New Zealand” published in The Journal of The Royal Geographical Society, vol 2, to accompany  a paper, Robert William Hay “Notices of New Zealand, from original documents,” pp. 132-36. (c. 200 x 115 mm.)

Most likely all the New Zealand maps listed  in the next few entries were published in atlases.

London, S.D.U.K.,  New Zealand, 1838

Map Sok 1.1 “The Islands of New Zealand ... Novr.  1838.” (405 x 310 mm.) (fig. 12.1)

The map was amended a number of times and reprinted in various editions. Some of the reprint editions with the year of publication and the name of the publisher are: 1838 (London: Chapman & Hall, 186 Strand) (Map Sok 1.2); 1844 (London: Charles Knight) (Map Sok 1.3); 1852  (London: Charles Knight) (Map Sok 1.4);  1853 (London: George  Cox) (Map Sok 1.5); c. 1857 (London: Edward Stanford) (Map Sok 1.6); c. 1862

 (London: Edward Stanford) (Map Sok 1.7).

Founded by Henry Broughton, in 1826, the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge lasted until 1848 when it was dissolved. 

Henry Brougham (1778-1868), later 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, was a remarkable politician, social and education reformer.

Bibliography  Chapter 12

Herbert, F. 1983  The Royal Geographical Society’s membership, the map trade,  and geographical publishing in Britain  1830 to c.1930: An introductory  essay with listing of some 250 fellows in related professions. Imago Mundi  35: 67-95.

Continued in Chapter 13 -  Maps by Colonial lithographers Click HERE

The present Chapter is Chapter 12.

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