Le Globe Terrestre Representé En Deux Plans-Hemispheres Et En Diverses Autres Figures

by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, Jean-Nicolas de Tralage, c.

$2,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A very beautiful and finely engraved world map, principally devised by one of the period's greatest cartographers. This very fine map is the result of the synergy of the talents of Coronelli and his French colleague Tralage, popularly known as the Sieur de Tillemont. It principally depicts the world in a bi-hemispheric projection, and largely follows the geography represented on Coronelli's celebrated globe of 1688. California is shown to be an island, and in the enigmatic

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