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Kashnor notes, "The old plate of Palariet worked up by Vaugondy, with the discoveries of Cook on the North-West, and the fabrications of Del Fonte. It is a curious map, though of some geographical interest in showing how geographers in France still believed in Del Fonte in face of the facts to the contrary shown in Cook's discoveries." Alaska is an island per Von Staehlen model, Australia better defined, Antipodes of European cities from earlier Palariet map, see 105:038M. Cartouches with figures between hemispheres, upper and lower.. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Watermark: Lettering, shield?. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: 13. Mappemonde. MS note: 39..
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Kashnor notes, "Shows California as an island, and inserts an imaginary coastline across the Pacific Ocean in a north-westerly direction from Cape Horn. At the top is a curious engraving representing the earth floating in space." Kashnor dates as 1714. Rosenthal dates as 1713 and gives appeared in information. Elaborate border of allegorical figures, animals . Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 248.
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