This handsome, double-hemisphere world map was drawn by Georg Moritz Lowitz, based on the work of Johann Mathias Haas. It includes four polar spheres, each in a different projection, and two interesting diagrams depicting the earth, as it would be seen from space. North America has a speculative border above California with the recent discoveries of Bering and Tschirikow noted in 1741. The large, mythical Xarayes Lake appears in the center of South America. In the South Pacific there are partial coastlines of New Zealand, Australia, and Tasmania. Two very large, decorative cartouches contain the titles, one in Latin, the other French. The Latin cartouche features mythical sea creatures and wind heads while the other is surrounded by fruit and animals representing the bounty of the earth along with four headdresses representing the four continents.

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Condition: B+

A nice impression with contemporary color in the map and later color in the cartouches on a sheet with a Wolfeg watermark. There are a few small spots and light soiling that is mostly confined to the edges of the sheet. There is an extraneous crease at top adjacent to the centerfold, an archivally repaired centerfold separation at bottom, and remnants of hinge tape on verso.