Canada Hudson Bay Melville Peninsula North America map Karte Vandermaelen 1825

Bruxelles 1825. Sheet size: ca. 54 x 72 cm. -- Original handcolored lithographic map from Vandermaelen's folio-size world atlas. It is the first atlas produced by the then new printing process of lithography and the first to show the whole world in maps using a large scale resulting in the most detailed maps at the time. -- Interesting map with Melville Peninsula and Hudson Bay. -- somewhat brownstained, otherwise in very good condition. || Original lithographierte, handkolorierte Karte aus Vandermaelen's Weltatlas aus dem Jahre 1827. Es ist der erste Atlas, welcher im damals neuartigen Verfahren der Lithographie hergestellt wurde.

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