Subject: World
Period: 1852 (dated)
Publication:
Color: Hand Color
Size:
24 x 20.2 inches
61 x 51.3 cm
This world map traces the routes of various explorers through the oceans, including those of Vancouver, La Perouse, Cook, and Furneaux. The southernmost point reached by an explorer, Captain James Weddell, is noted in the Antarctic Ocean. Enclosed in a keyboard-style border.
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Condition: A
A nice impression with full contemporary color on a bright sheet with a few faint spots of foxing and minor toning along the edges of the sheet. There are some faint grayish shadows in the image that are caused by our scanner and don't appear on the map itself.
