Small world map with insular California
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Author: Buffier, Claude
Title: Mappamondo
Place Published: Rome
Publisher:
Date Published: 1787
Description:
Author: Buffier, Claude
Title: Mappamondo
Place Published: Rome
Publisher:
Date Published: 1787
Description:
Copper-engraved double-hemisphere world map. 13.3x17.2 cm (5¼x6¾").
Charming double hemisphere map was engraved by Giovanni Petroschi for Buffier's "Nuova Geografia", showing the Western Hemisphere with California as an island, even though 1787 the island concept had been disproved and discarded by most major cartographers.
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Chips to corners well away from map border; near fine.
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Small world map with insular California
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