This is an Admiralty Chart No. 1371 China Sea - Anamba Islands. Engraved in 1895. This is a clean first edition with large corrections to 1939, printed with no updates. Chart size is 65cm x 98 cm. It is not altered or written on, with no manual updates.
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The map features new islands and fjords but shows only minimal changes to the island's interior. This particular example originates from the French edition of Blaeu's influential atlas,Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive, Atlas novus, published in Amsterdam in 1640.
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Issued 1620, Padua, by Porcacchi & Porro. Charming miniature map of this island, among the earliest separate printed depictions of it. sea monsters surround the island, two ridden by fantastical sea creatures.
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Djerba is an island off the coast of Tunisia. It is said to be the mythical location of the lotus-eaters in The Odyssey. The local architecture has a distinctive style that influenced the makers of Star Wars.
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This exemplary double chart depicts the island cluster of Hawaii, as surveyed by Comte Le Perouse and his team on their legendary expedition to the Pacific (1785-88). It was here, in Maui, that the Comte de la Perouse and his crew made their first landfall.
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Consequently, many toponyms and annotations pertain to an ancient geography and the associated mythology. The result is a wholly original composition that instructs the mind and delights the eye. First published in 1570,Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is regarded as the first modern atlas.
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