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Detailed antique engraved map of the South Pacific, with inset maps of Tasmania ("Van Diemens Land"), Western Australia ("Sudwestspitze von Neu Holland mit der Colonie am Schwann-Flusse."), and New South Wales ("Das Innere von Neu-Sud-Wales Nach den neuesten Quellen entworfen."), issued in Hildburghausen in 1846 by Joseph Meyer.
The map names the various coastal regions of Australia and separates them with hand-coloring.
Joseph Meyer (1796-1856) was a German publisher who released Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, a German-language encyclopedia in print from 1839 to 1984. Meyer was born in Gotha and educated as a merchant in Frankfurt, an important city in the book trade. He traveled in London in 1816 and was back in German in 1820, where he began to invest in textiles and railways. He opened his publishing operation, Bibliographisches Institut, in 1826. His publications each had a serial number, a new innovation at the time. He was best known for his atlases and the Meyers Universum (1833-1861), which featured steel-engravings of the world. The Universum stretched to 17 volumes in 12 languages and was subscribed to by 80,000 people all over Europe. Thanks to his publishing success, Meyer moved the Institut from Gotha to Hildburghausen in 1828. Meyer died in the latter city in 1856.
![(Sydney) Plan du Comte de Cumberland (Nouvelle-Galles du Sud) [on sheet with] Plan des Iles Jerome [and] Plan des Iles Berthier](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/77740.jpg)
