Description
Scarce large scale c.19th map of Melville Islands, Northern Territory and surrounding seas from Vandermaelen’s monumental atlas.
It was the first atlas produced using lithography. It was also the first atlas in which all the maps were on the same scale (1:1,641,836) and additionally the maps were designed to be joined into a three-dimensional terrestrial globe with a diameter of approximately 7.75 meters. He built one example of the monumental globe that the maps were designed to create and measured more than 7.01m in diameter.
From: Vandermaelen, Atlas universel de geographie physique, politique, statistique et mineralogique, sur l’echelle
