New Map of the Terraqueous Globe

Publication Date: 1701
Title: New Map of the Terraqueous Globe
Cartographer: WELLS, EDWARD | M. BURGHERS sculp.
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY
Height: 14.5
Width: 20

"according to the Ancient Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into Continents and Oceans." The world in hemispheres with original outline coloring. Margins browned with top one flaking but not affecting plate. Professionally matted so that printed area shows good displayable condition with original outline hand color. Decorative dedication cartouche of royal arms of William Duke of Gloucester at bottom and allegorical scenes of sailing ships and the Sheldonian theatre at Oxford. On western hemisphere map there is a note claiming North America may have been the ancient's Atlantis! Shows California as an island. Ex-collection: Stoke on Trent City Libraries. Shirley (World) 608 (609?) pl.420

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