"[Lot of 2 Untitled Maps - Eastern Hemisphere & Western Hemisphere]", Happel, Everard Werner

Rare and unusual pair of hemisphere maps engraved by Heinrich Irsinger. In the Western Hemisphere, California appears as an Island with the coastline of Anian to the northeast of the island. In the South Pacific, New Zealand's western coastline is depicted as well as a group of Polynesian islands. In the Eastern Hemisphere, East Asia is truncated in the north and Australia is partially mapped. In Africa, the Nile is shown emerging from a single large lake south of the Equator. Each sheet is decorated with very unusual figures representing the natives of the continents and exotic animals. According to Shirley these maps appears in Happel's "Mundus Mirabilis" (1687) and "Historia Moderna Europae" (1692) and may have been included in other works published by Matthaeus Wagner.

References: Shirley (Corrigenda and Addenda) #535A; Shirley, Map Collector Vol. 64, p. 4.

Condition: B

Slight soil at centerfold with minor expert repairs. Fine later color.