A late 18th century wall map of the world on four sheets

DUNN, Samuel.

A General Map of the World, or Terraqueous Globe with all the New Discoveries and Marginal Delineations, containing the most interesting particulars in the Solar, Starry and Mundane System.
London: Laurie & Whittle, 1799. Coloured. Four sheets conjoined, total 1030 x 1230mm.

Laid on archival canvas.

A large and impressive double-hemisphere wall map of the world, showing the courses of Cook's three circumnavigations, with his discoveries in Australia and New Zealand in the 1770s, and those he made in the North Pacific on his Third and final Voyage.
Around the main map are other illustrations, with two celestial spheres in the upper cusp and the moon in the lower, as well as a world map on Mercator's Projection and a chart of the Solar System.


Stock ID : 23965