ANTIQUE & ART AUCTION Tuesday, 19 September 2017 - 10:00 AM start
A rare double page folio map: 'Southern Hemisphere' [Polar projection]
Lot Details
from John Pinkerton's Modern Atlas, published Philadelphia 1818. Hand coloured outlines and tints; depicting Australia, Polynesia and parts of South America and Africa, issued after the search for Terra Australis had been abandoned, but prior to the discovery of Antarctica - consequently the South Pole depicted as vast ocean called 'Icy Sea', the interiors of 'New Holland' and Africa vague and 'unknown'. 570 x 815mm. $200
