Description
Rare c.18th world map on Mercator’s Projection with a decorative title placed between two tables, with full original hand colouring by Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of all time.
Australian and New Zealand are shown with the discoveries made by Abel Tasman’s on his two voyages 1642-1644 and with a hypothetical east and southern coast joining Tasmania and the Solomon Islands.
From Euler’s, Atlas geographicus omnes orbis terrarum regiones
References:
Phillips, P. A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress. Washington 1973 : Atlases III:3500..
Collections:
David Rumsey Collection: 11392
