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Superb c.18th double hemisphere world map embellished with a view of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, sages in discussion and four figures representing Europe, Asia and the Americas, astride the royal coat of arms. The map is dedicated to His Highness William, the Duke of Gloucester. The Duke was attending Oxford where Wells was a teacher of mathematics and geography. Engraved by Michael Burghers.
Wells included this world map in the second edition of his atlas, A New Sett of Maps of Antient and Present Geography, published in 1701 with a number of changes from the first issue of this map and is identified by the following;
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.
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.
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