Subject: North Pole
Period: 1747 (published)
Publication: Atlas Portatif
Color: Hand Color
Size:
10.5 x 7 inches
26.7 x 17.8 cm
An interesting Dutch map that includes a map of the North Pole featuring the island of California with a narrow isthmus near the center of its eastern coast, and a faint coastline labeled, Onbekend Land, nearly connecting Asia and North America. A second map that takes up nearly a third of the sheet covers the volcanic islands of the Sangihe Archipelago in Indonesia.
References: McLaughlin #231.
Condition: B+
Issued folding, now pressed with a couple of minute holes only visible when held to light and a few small chips in left blank margin that have been reinforced on verso with Japanese tissue. There is some minor toning at top.