SDUK Map of South Africa Mapmaker(s)_London Transport Ukraine and parts of Poland

Ukraine and parts of Poland

when the United Provinces still led Europe in the field of map-making

or necessary to the common business of life'

published in ‘Mercurio geografico’

each dissected into 21 panels and laid on linen

SDUK Map of South Africa Mapmaker(s)_London Transport Ukraine and parts of PolandThis map of South Africa, including an inset of Cape Town, was engraved by John & Charles Walker. It was published by the SDUK. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high minded aim of making 'useful' information available to the self taught. Some of the material was decidedly abstruse, subscribers fell away and the Society was wound up in 1848; however, the series of 209 maps published over a 14 year period