Lot 116
Gardner, James
The World
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
To His Most Gracious Majesty George the IVth. This Delineation of the Present State of Geographical Knowledge is with Permission most humbly dedicated … 1825, Additions to 1830. London: J. G. Gardner, 1830. Engraved wall-sized double-hemispheric world map on 4 conjoined sheets, 137 x 248 cm, contemporary hand-colouring, mounted along edges onto board, toning, various tears
Footnote
An imposing world map capturing the United States in the midst of its expansion across the North American continent, with its western border being that established by the Treaty of Adams-Onis of 1819; Alaska is named as Russian America, close attention is paid to the names of the Native American territories, while much of Arctic Canada, with the discovery of the North-West Passage then still far in the future, is left artfully undelineated. Rare.