Subject: South Pole
Period: 1714 (dated)
Publication:
Color: Hand Color
Size:
18.3 x 18 inches
46.5 x 45.7 cm
Delisle's map depicting the Southern Hemisphere shows the tracks of the explorers and circumnavigators around the southern oceans including Magellan in 1520, Abel Tasman in 1642, and Edmund Halley in 1698-1700. The map provides very good detail, particularly of the explorations and discoveries in the South Pacific. Australia, New Guinea, Tasmania, and New Zealand are partially delineated, with Australia and New Guinea nearly attached to one another.
References: Tooley (Australia) p. xxxi, #42.
Condition: A
A crisp impression with contemporary outline color on a sheet with the Society of Jesus watermark and light soiling mostly confined to the blank margins.
