NEW IRELAND, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, PACIFIC OCEAN, VANDERMAELEN antique map 1827

Oceanique PARTIE DE L'ARCHIP'l DE LA N'lle IRLANDE No.25

by Phillipe Vandermaelen

Published Brussels 1827 in "Atlas Universel"

An interesting large format chart of part of New Ireland in the Pacific Ocean, in present day Papua New Guinea. Many individually named islands, some with their date of discovery including Is. du Mortlock 1795, Iles Vert 1616, Iles de Cartaret, 1767 etc.

An early lithographed map with attractive hand colouring and inset descriptive text about New Britain, New Ireland and the Amirante Islands in French.

Fine condition other than some light offsetting adjacent to the original central fold, printed on heavy grade wove paper, blank verso.

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Approx. 20" x 18" (510 mm x 470mm) map area only, with good margins beyond. 

Phillipe Vandermaelen (1795 -1869) was a Belgian cartographer of some note and he published the large scale six volume Atlas Universel in 1827. It was the first atlas to employ the recently invented process of lithography and its folio maps display the whole world on the same massive scale of approx 26 miles to an inch in a conical projection.

A GENUINE ANTIQUE MAP GUARANTEED OVER 180 YEARS OLD FROM LINDISFARNE PRINTS

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