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Stock# 108958
Description
Interesting maps of the Western and Eastern Hemispheres by Greenleaf, two of 4 hemispheric map projections in his New Universal Atlas.
The Western Hemisphere shows a nice depiction of North America, New Zealand and the Pacific Ocean. A massive unnamed San Francisco Bay is considerably out ot scale, but a fascinating anomally.
The Eastern Hemisphere provides a nice depiction of the evolving shape of the Australian continent (still called New Holland) and the lack of knowledge in the South Polar regions.
Condition Description
Original hand-color. Engraving on two sheets of unjoined 19th-century wove paper.
![Western Hemisphere [and] Eastern Hemisphere](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/77831.jpg)
