World.- Santini (Francois) and Jean Janvier. Mappe Monde ou Description du Globe Terrestre, [c. 1775].
World.- Santini (Francois) and Jean Janvier. Mappe Monde ou Description du Globe Terrestre, double-hemisphere world map pre-dating Cook's last voyage to the Pacific and before a wider awareness of Russian exploration around Alaska, showing incomplete coastlines for Australia, New Zealand and the north west of North America, engraving with hand-colouring on laid paper with watermark of the letter 'R', 490 x 665 mm (19 1/4 x 26 1/4 in), central vertical fold with some expert restoration to loss at centre, parallel creases, otherwise minor surface dirt and browning, unframed, Giovanni Antonio Remondini, Venice, [circa 1775]
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World.- Santini (Francois) and Jean Janvier. Mappe Monde ou Description du Globe Terrestre, double-hemisphere world map pre-dating Cook's last voyage to the Pacific and before a wider awareness of Russian exploration around Alaska, showing incomplete coastlines for Australia, New Zealand and the north west of North America, engraving with hand-colouring on laid paper with watermark of the letter 'R', 490 x 665 mm (19 1/4 x 26 1/4 in), central vertical fold with some expert restoration to loss at centre, parallel creases, otherwise minor surface dirt and browning, unframed, Giovanni Antonio Remondini, Venice, [circa 1775]