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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 127 - closed 2/25/2009

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Lot #790: "[Untitled - North Pacific Ocean] Fol. I.D. Fig. I." Scherer

Antique map chart Untitled North Pacific Ocean Fol ID Fig I
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Estimate:
$950.00 - $1,200.00
Sold for: $1,100.00

Lot 790
By: Scherer
Subject: North Pacific Ocean
Date: 1703

Publication: Geographia Politica…

Condition: A
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Color: hand color

Size: 13.5 x 9 inches
34.3 x 22.9 cm

This bizarre and unusual map shows a mirror image of the North Pacific with the coastlines of America and Asia reversed, as if viewed from the center of the earth. The island of California is depicted with a heavily indented coastline. Japan has a curious shape with Honshu joined to a bulbous shaped Hokkaido by a narrow isthmus. The seas are filled with strange creatures and exquisitely engraved galleons, and the land is teeming with exotic animals. Native figures (each holding an exotic bird) support a distance measure that stretches between the continents. Inset with a large map of the Eastern hemisphere centered on Asia, also in mirror image.

Light soil in blank margins, else fine.


Ref: McLaughlin #159.

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