Betts’s new map of the world, neatly dissected

A$825 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

London : John Betts, c. 1850. Cedar box with sliding lid featuring an engraved vignette with people and animals from the four great continents, printed advertisement for Betts s Instructive juvenile games on underside, containing the engraved map Betts s school atlas of the world on Mercator s projection , measuring 295 x 450mm, laid on wood and dissected into 56 pieces (one small piece of the Mediterranean Sea provided in facsimile), overall fine. A rare mid-nineteenth century children s cartographic toy.

• Binding: Hardcover

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