Historic Map : Perthes Map of Australia and Polynesia in Mercator's Projection, 1853, Vintage Wall Art Old maps of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 5251140 Levasseur published several different editions

Levasseur published several different editions of his North America map - this being the most desirable due to its depictions of the ephemeral Republic of Texas

this map is largely derived from an earlier wall map of North America produced by Colton and

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but by the early 19th century the explorations of the world's great peaks had reached a point where such a chart could be composed on a global level

Jansson has curiously oriented this chart with Africa at the center

Historic Map : Perthes Map of Australia and Polynesia in Mercator's Projection, 1853, Vintage Wall Art Old maps of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 5251140 Levasseur published several different editionsA fascinating example of the 1853 Perthes map of Australia and Polynesia. This map covers from Southeast Asia eastward as far as the Gulf of California, and from Japan Southwards to include all of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. This map corrects many of the cartographic errors of the previous century and consequently most coastlines accurately rendered. Inland though, much remains confused and only tenuously explored. Vast stretches of unmapped