"Planisphere Suivant la Projection de Mercator", Bonne, Rigobert

Subject: World
Period: 1780 (circa)
Color: Hand Color
Size: 8.4 x 12.9

Attractive copper-engraved map of the world with the direction of ocean currents shown throughout with little arrows. Alaska, here Alaschka, is depicted as a small island and Tasmania is still attached to a truncated Australia.
Condition: B+
On a bright sheet with a 1.5" separation at bottom that has been closed on verso with archival materials.