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Lot 37

Sale 402 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Nov 11, 2015 3:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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(MAP) WELLS, EDWARD A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe According to the Ancient Discoveries and Most General Divisions of it into Continents and Oceans. Oxford, 1700. Double-page engraved map with hand-coloring. Double-hemisphere map of the world, dedicated to William, Duke of Gloucester, depicting California as an island, an incomplete New Holland attached to N. Guinea, a partial New Zealand coast line, and no Southern continent. With annotations in North and South America, including a suggestion that the Americas may have been the lost continent of Atlantis, dedication vignette to lower center with depiction of William of Gloucester with his tutor under the tree at lower right corner. Framed and matted. 18 x 21 1/8 inches.

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