S.D.U.K. - Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK), founded in 1826 by Lord Brougham, was a Whiggish London organisation with the high-minded objective of bringing learning to the uneducated working and middle classes. Much of its output was regarded as unreadable, it was not commercially successful, and it was wound up in 1848. Its most enduring legacy is the wonderful set of atlas maps and sought-after town plans published under its auspices, which we stock below. Originally issued in parts by Baldwin & Cradock 1829-32, it was later published as an atlas by Chapman & Hall in 1844 and by Charles Knight between 1844-1852. It continued to be published after the demise of the Society by G. Cox 1852-1853 and Edward Stanford 1857-1870. The maps commonly have original outline colour. Fourteen members of the S.D.U.K. served on the Boundary Commission for the 1832 Great Reform Act.

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S.D.U.K. - Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

WESTERN HEMISPHERE. Americas Mexican Texas Pacific New Zealand. SDUK 1844 map

EASTERN HEMISPHERE Europe Africa.Mountains of Kong.Asia Australia.SDUK 1844 map

AMERICAS. Gnomonic Projection. Shows Texas as part of Mexico. SDUK 1844 map

AUSTRALASIA POLYNESIA PACIFIC OCEAN. On Gnomonic Projection. SDUK 1844 old map

ASIA AUSTRALIA on Gnomonic Projection. China India Persia. SDUK 1844 old map

NORTH POLE ARCTIC to 45˚ N Latitude.Alaska as Russian Territory.SDUK 1844 map

EUROPE. General map. Inset table of population & density by country . SDUK 1844

ENGLAND NORTH.Yorkshire Cumbs Lancs Durham Northumbs;Isle of Man.SDUK 1844 map

WALES & ENGLAND WEST MIDLANDS. Showing counties. Original colour.SDUK 1844 map

ENGLAND SOUTH WEST. Cornwall Devon Somerset Dorset Scilly Isles. SDUK 1844 map

ENGLAND SE. Middx Kent Sussex Surrey Hants Berks Essex Herts. SDUK 1844 map

SCOTLAND SOUTH. Shows castles & kirks. Inset former county names.SDUK 1844 map

SCOTLAND ISLANDS. Western Isles. Orkneys, Shetlands and Hebrides.SDUK 1844 map

ANCIENT BRITAIN. England & Wales. Roman road town names. Ptolemy SDUK 1844 map

ANCIENT BRITAIN.Caledonia-Scotland.Roman road town names.Ptolemy.SDUK 1844 map

IRELAND on 2 sheets conjoined 62x50 cm. Round towers Cloigthithe. SDUK 1844 map

ANCIENT ROMAN FRANCE GAUL. Gallia Transalpina. Roman names roads.SDUK 1844 map

ITALY. General Map. Sicily Malta Sardinia Corsica. Population table. SDUK 1844

ITALY.Sardinian States,Venetian Lombardy,Parma,Modena,Bolognese.SDUK 1844 map

ANCIENT ITALY.South.Apulia Latium Sabini Samnium Picenum Etruria.SDUK 1844 map

ITALY SOUTH.Naples Stato Pontifico Toscana.Original hand colour.SDUK 1844 map

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