[WELLS, Edward] A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe according to the Ancient Discoveries and most general divisions of it into continents and oceans, Oxford: M. Burghers, [ca. 1700], hand-coloured engraved twin hemispherical map, 370 x 510mm., framed and glazed.

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[WELLS, Edward] A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe according to the Ancient Discoveries and most general divisions of it into continents and oceans, Oxford: M. Burghers, [ca. 1700], hand-coloured engraved twin hemispherical map, 370 x 510mm., framed and glazed.

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North America is described: "This Continent with the adjoining islands is generally supposed to have been anciently unknown though there are not wanting some who will have even the continent itself to be no other than the insula Atlantis of the Ancients." One of the last maps to show California as an island.

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