Bruxelles 1825. Sheet size: ca. 54 x 72 cm. -- 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. -- Map of a part of the Carribean, with Haiti, the east of Cuba and the eastern part of the Bahamas island. -- in very good condition. | | Original lithographierte, handkolorierte Karte aus Vandermaelen's Weltatlas aus dem Jahre 1827. Es ist der erste Atlas, welcher im damals neuartigen Verfahren der Lithographie hergestellt wurde.
eBay