A highly decorative separate-issue world map
£4,500
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A beautiful large-format double-hemisphere world map, dedicated to Bertrand René Pallu, Louis XV's commissioner of Lyon.
On the map, Tasmania is connected to New Guinea by a straight, unbroken coastline, twenty years before Cook mapped New South Wales; in the North Atlantic, Frobisher's Strait crosses Greenland and the mythical island of Buss is marked, here associated with the older myth of Friesland; and California is shown as a peninsula, with no mapping of the American coastline further north.
Engraved by Delamonce, the borders are packed with decorative detail: above the map are allegorical figures of the Roman gods and Muses; underneath the map are allegorical figures of the continents; down each side are astronomical diagrams; and in the cusps are celestial spheres.
This in an early state: c.1770 the map was re-engraved, with Australia bulging out to the east and the fictitious 'Mer de L'Ouest' added above California.
Additional information
Dimensions | 725 × 525 mm |
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Cartographer | |
Date | 1750 |
Extra Info | Nouvelle Mappe-Monde avec la repr?sentation des deux Emisph?res Celestes, les Disques du Soleil, et de la Lune, et les differents sentiments sur la mouvem.t des Plantes. |
Publication | Lyon: Daudet, c.1750. Coloured. 525 x 725mm. |
Condition | A good example. |
References | – |