Mappe Monde. World in twin hemispheres. BUFFIER c1818 old antique chart

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Mappe Monde [World Map]. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Claude Buffier. Engraved by Lemarié. Provenance: "Géographie Universelle", exposée dans les différentes Méthodes qui peuvent abréger l'étude & faciliter l'ufage de cette Science, Avec le secours des Vers artificiels, et un Traité de la Sphere, Par le Buffier, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Type: Antique engraved map. Australia and New Zealand are shown with partial, incomplete coastlines. The river Niger is shown flowing east to west. Lower California is hsown somewhat ambiguously, as if it was originally engraved as an island, but was later re-engraved to show it as being attached to North America

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Size: 4450px × 3472px
Location: World
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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