Mappe-Monde Geo-Hydrographique ou Description Generale du Globe Terrestre et Aquatique en Deux Plans-Hemispheres;

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ou sont exactement remarquees en General Toutes les parties de la Terre et de l'Eau suivant les relations les plus nouvelles. Par le Sr. Sanson Geographe Ordinaire du Roy. ... Presente a Monseigneur le Dauphin ... Paris 1706. Large copper engraved map magnificently hand-coloured in outline depicting the two hemispheres two ornate cartouches and with captioned title within a border across top of the entire map. Measuring 89.5cm. x 55.5cm. plus margins. Tooley records a later printing of this map (1730) illustrated by him as Plate 137 which shows additional cartographic information not available in our earlier version. Our map shows Nouvelle Hollande with its coastline charted as far as it had been surveyed at the time. A particularly impressive and decorative map mounted & framed to conservation standard in a 85mm width aged timber moulding.