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Description
Decorative double hemisphere map of the world, pre-dating Cook's Voyages. The main cartographic features of the map are a massive Bay of the West and unusual Alaskan conjectural archipelago, partial New Zealand and unsual projection of Australia. No sign of the Antarctic continent. A marvelous decorative world map from the first edition of Janvier's Atlas Moderne.