Oceanique. Nouvelle Caledonie. No. 46.

Scarce large scale c.19th map of New Caledonia from Vandermaelen’s monumental atlas.

It was the first atlas produced using lithography. It was also the first atlas in which all the maps were on the same scale (1:1,641,836) and additionally the maps were designed to be joined into a three-dimensional terrestrial globe with a diameter of approximately 7.75 meters. He built one example of the monumental globe that the maps were designed to create and measured more than 7.01m in diameter.

From: Vandermaelen, Atlas universel de geographie physique, politique, statistique et mineralogique, sur l’echelle

References:
Phillips, P. A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress. Washington 1973 : 749.

Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 3359
Library of Congress Washington D.C.: LCCN 2012587601
Princeton University Library: Call number: MAP Oversize 2009-0008E
David Rumsey Collection: List No: 2212C
National Maritime Museum Greenwich: 179