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C1700
A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe according to the Ancient Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into Continents and Oceans.
Mapmaker:
First edition of this superb c.18th double hemisphere world map dedicated to His Highness William, the Duke of Gloucester. The Duke was attending Oxford where Wells was a teacher of mathematics and geography. The map is embellished with a figure … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe according to the Ancient Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into Continents and Oceans.
Date:
C1700
Mapmaker:
Engraver:
Michael Burghers
(1647 –
1727)
Condition:
Lower margin extended, small section at top reinstated, otherwise in good condition. With centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
370mm
x 510mm
Paper Size:
520mm
x 387mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1700
Description:
First edition of this superb c.18th double hemisphere world map dedicated to His Highness William, the Duke of Gloucester.
The Duke was attending Oxford where Wells was a teacher of mathematics and geography. The map is embellished with a figure of Britannia holding Medusa shield and a view of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford. Engraved by Michael Burghers.
The map is further identified as being from the first edition by the number 1 below the dedication.
It is one of the last maps to depict California as an Island. The northwest coast of North America is left blank and North America is noted as perhaps being “no other, than the Insular Atlantis of the Ancients.”
From Wells, A New Sett of Maps of Antient and Present Geography.
References:
Moreland, C. & Bannister, D. Antique Maps. London 1995 : p.163, ill. p.164.
Shirley, R. The Mapping of the World Early Printed World Maps 1472-1700. London 1987 : 609, p.605, ill. Pl 420, p.604.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 587951
National Library New Zealand: MapColl 100a 1722? 42929
Edward Wells (1667 - 1727)
Wells was the son of Edward Wells, the Vicar of Corsham, Wiltshire. Educated at Westminster School from 1680. He won a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford in 1686 where he graduated with a MA in 1693 and went on to have a turbulent career in the ministry. Wells was a prolific writer translating several religious and secular Latin and Greek works into English. He also wrote on astronomy, chronology, arithmetic and geometry, although his best known work is his atlas, A New Sett of Maps of Antient and Present Geography first issued in 1700.