Brussels 1825. Sheet size: approx. 54x72cm. -- Original handcolored lithographic map from Vandermaelen's folio-size world atlas. It is the first atlas produced by the then new printing process of lithography and the first to show the whole world in maps using a large scale resulting in the most detailed maps at the time. -- An index map of the atlas' North American maps. Alaska depicted in an inset map. -- in very good condition. || Original lithographed, hand-colored map from Vandermaelen's World Atlas from 1827. It is the first atlas to be produced using the then-novel process of lithography. -- well preserved. || -- This is an original! - No copy! - No reprint!Order number: 252209.
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