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Superbly embellished and rare c.18th double hemisphere world map showing Australia with the discoveries made by Abel Tasman on his two voyages 1742-4.
The embellishments include; female personifications of the continents in the lower corners set within a panoramic landscape and with lunar and solar calendars at top centre. The figure of Apollo riding his chariot is depicted at top left.
As Rodney Shirley states in, The Mapping of the World, “the decorative engraving surrounding the hemispheres is exceptionally detailed and complex….”
Jean de Beaurain (1696 - 1771)
French geographer who at the age of nineteen, came to Paris and studied geography under Pierre Moulart-Samson, geographer to the king, a title which Beaurain obtained at the age of twenty-five. A perpetual calendar, ecclesiastical and civil, which he published in 1724, made him known to Louis XV, for whom he made a large number of maps and plans.
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