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Stock# 2808
Description
A nice pair of modern world maps, showing two unique projections. On the left is a world map on a North Polar Projection, showing California as and Island and extending South to include the known/incomplete coastlines of Australia and New Zealand and even a small hint of the Antarctic coast, although mythical. On the right is a cordiform projection of the world, which was popularized in the mid-16th Century, but again with contemporary cartographic information and mis-information. In each instance, California is curiously hooked to the mainland in the mid part of the Island, apparently hedging the prospect of its insularity in a unique and curious format. A scarce world map, the first time we have encountered this work.
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