Océanique. Partie… Nlle Hollande #57. Victoria Tasmania. VANDERMAELEN 1827 map
Océanique - Partie de la Nouvelle Hollande [Note sur la Terre de Van Diemen] - No. 57. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Philippe Marie Guillaume Vandermaelen. Lithography by Henri Ode. Provenance: "Atlas Universel de Geographie Physique, Politique, Statistique et Mineralogique", dresse par Ph. Vandermaelen - Premiere partie - Europe. Bruxelles. [This landmark atlas is remarkable as the first atlas to have been produced using the then new printing process of lithography. It is also the first atlas to show the whole world in maps using a large uniform scale; in total the 380 conically projected sheets of maps are designed to be joined into a three dimensional terrestrial globe with a diameter of approximately metres (25 feet).]. Type: Antique folio-sized lithographic atlas map, hand coloured in outline, on conical projection. This map was published within the first atlas ever to be printed using lithography, and also the first to be printed on a uniform scale. The north part of Tasmania, the Bass Strait, and part of Victoria including Port Philip and the location of the modern city of Melbourne
Size: 7128px × 6105px
Location: Victoria & Tasmania
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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