A general map of the world or terraqueous globe. With all the new discoveries and marginal delineations, containing the most interesting particulars in the solar, starry and mundane systems.

Impressive and highly-detailed wall chart by British mapmaker, mathematician and astronomer Samuel Dunn. It is based on the world map by Jean d’, renowned for his rigorous attention to detail and constant revision of existing cartographic knowledge. Surrounding the map, Dunn has added a number of diagrams and articles of incredible breadth and detail, including a stunning map of the moon, a rectangular world map on Mercator’ projection, celestial maps of the northern and southern hemispheres, a diagram of the solar system with an accompanying table of dimensions, an astronomical latitude and longitude analemma, a universal scale of equal parts, chords, lines, tangents, secants, a table and explanatory notes on the vicissitude of the seasons, and numerous other diagrams and notes of astronomical and mathematical systems. The discoveries of Abel Tasman on his first and second voyages 1642-44 are shown, although the only place name included on the western side of Cape York is the ‘ River’. The coast is named ‘’ and includes a note incorrectly stating that it was discovered in 1828, rather than in 1606 (Jansz). New Zealand and the east coast of Australia are shown according to the discoveries made by James Cook on his first voyage 1768-1771. Van Diemen’ Land is shown joined to the mainland and the uncharted coast of southern Australia is depicted as an imaginary line. The map also shows the tracks of Cook’ three voyages and those of numerous others including St. Allouarn 1772, the Spanish Galleon S. Carlos 1769, Bougainville 1768, Anson 1742 and Bouvet 1740. There are several interesting notes accompanying the explorer’ tracks such as the one for Hawaii which states that it was ‘ Capt. Cook was Killed in February 1779’ and quotes from Cook’ journal in the southern Pacific Ocean such as ‘ ice to be seen’, ‘ ice’ and ‘ of Ice Impenetrable’, indicating how close Cook came to discovering Antarctica (just 65km). The voyage of French navigator Louis Francois de St Allouarn is often overlooked but is historically significant and could have had great political implications for Australia. After sailing from Mauritius, St Allouarn sighted Cape Leeuwin on the Western Coast of Australia in March 1772 and then preceded north to Shark Bay, landing at Dirk Hartog Island where he buried an act of possession claiming the west coast of New Holland for France. Also noted are the erroneously-charted Trial Islands near present-day Dampier, named after the English ship the Trial wish was wrecked there in 1622. From Robert Sayer General Atlas. References: Moreland p.173.