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After Edward Wells (1667-1727),…
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Melbourne
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20-Nov-2023
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After Edward Wells (1667-1727), 'A new map of the Terraqueous globe ...', hand coloured engraving, 'A new map of the Terraqueous globe according to the ancient Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into Continent and Oceans ... Dedicated to his Highness, William, Duke of Gloucester', engraved by Michael Burghers, from an early eighteenth century edition of Wells's 'A Treatise of ancient and Present Geography, together with a Sett of maps ...' (Oxford, 1701, with subsequent editions), richly mounted in a burnished water-gilt frame, 37.5 x 51.5 cm (plate), 77 x 87 cm. Other Notes: one of the last maps to represent California as an island.
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