A.G. Schneider

LV 19811

Western Hemisphere with North and South America

„Die Westliche Halbkugel nach den zuverlässigsten und neuesten Nachrichten entworfen und nach A. Arrowsmiths Weltkarte herausgegeben. Nürnberg in der Kayserlichen privilegirten Kunst und Buchhandlung bey Ad. Gottl. Schneider und Weigel 1797.“

€ 750,-

Orig. coloured copper engraving by A.G. Schneider, published by Schneider & Weigel, after the large map of America made by A. Arrowsmith (1750-1853) in 1796, Nuremberg 1797, 53,5 x 64 cm.

Rare German map of America with details about the European colonies in the New World and about the islands in the Atlantic and Pazific Oceans. In the Northwestern part Eastern Russia with the Bering Sea and Bering Strait. In the Northeastern part the Baffin Bay, Greenland and Iceland. In the Southwestern part: New Zealand.

Explanations at lower left and right.

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