Description
Fully hand coloured example of one the most decorative c.19th maps of the world from The Illustrated Atlas by John Tallis. With scrolled borders and vignettes of Cook’s ship the and Resolution and another showing Polynesian artifacts. The tracks of Cook’s three voyages are shown.
Other vignettes include London, Gibraltar, Constantinople, The Pyramids of Ghizeh, Niagra, Point Neuf Paris, Niagra and Vesuvius.
