Remarks: A Dekorative and rare world map in two hemispheres. The map shows the image of the world in the early 18th YesHrhunds, still without the great discoveries of the expeditions in the Pacific of the later 18. century. The representation of Australia and New Zealand is therefore still based on the knowledge of Abel Tasmans from 1624. Out of Parrarets "Atlas Methodique Compose Pour L'Usage de Son Altesse Serenissime Monseigneur Le Prince d'Orange et de Nassau ...". Jean Palairet (1697 - 1774) was a French cartographer born in Montauban, who lived in London and there, among other things, as a private teacher at the Hof Georg II. worked. A rare and decorative map of the world in Two Hemispheres. The map show the cartographic knowledge of the world at the starting of the 18th Century, Sti.
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