This is an early edition of this charming double hemisphere map. In North America there is a distinct Northwest Passage connecting Hudson Bay with the large Sea of the West and the Pacific. Alaska is shown in dotted outline as an extremely lengthy peninsula based on the Russian discoveries of Bering and Tschirikow. Australia is shown attached to both Tasmania and New Guinea with a conjectural eastern coastline incorporating Terre du S. Espirit (New Hebrides). The place name Terre de Diemen is shown twice, in Tasmania and in Arnhem Land in the region of today's Darwin . New Zealand is shown as just a little scribble of coastline in the South Pacific.

References: Perry & Prescott #1762.01

Condition: B+

Nice impression and original color on full sheet of thick hand laid paper with wide margins and large watermark. Some light scattered foxing in map, more in margins.