Catalog Archive
Auction 179, Lot 21

"Mappe-Monde ou Description du Globe Terrestre, Assujettie aux Observations Astronomiques ", Janvier/Lattre

Subject: World

Period: 1775 (dated)

Publication: Atlas Moderne

Color: Hand Color

Size:
17.6 x 11.9 inches
44.7 x 30.2 cm
Download High Resolution Image
(or just click on image to launch the Zoom viewer)

A lovely double hemisphere map with a very decorative garland-draped title cartouche. Australia is shown with an east coast, and New South Wales is named; however, Tasmania remains linked to the mainland. The place name T. de Diemen is shown twice, in Tasmania and in T. d'Arnhem, the region of today's Darwin. Hawaii does not yet appear in the Pacific. A rudimentary northwestern coastline is shown in North America, with Alaska almost completely missing, and Greenland is connected to the Arctic.

References: cf. Perry & Prescott #1782.02.

Condition: B

Contemporary outline color on watermarked paper with light toning, moderate soiling, several printer's creases, and an archivally repaired tear in the right blank margin.

Estimate: $240 - $300

Sold for: $180

Closed on 9/16/2020

Archived