Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection

by Wright-Molyneux

$3,500 · Offered by Argosy Book Store

London: Typographic Etching Company, 1880. Typographic etching, Sheet measures 19 3/4 x 28 . Uncommon facsimile map issued by the Hakluyt Society, named after Richard Hakluyt 1552-1616 , the influential English geographer and compiler of travel accounts. This map reproduces the Wright-Molyneux world chart, originally published in 1599 and derived from a 1592 globe by English globe maker Emeric Molyneux.The

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