A game plan for the whole world
By GAULTIER, Abbe; and Jehoshaphat ASPIN , 1838
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A Plane Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection, for the elucidation of The Abbe Gaultier's Geographical Games.

World World and continents
  • Author: GAULTIER, Abbe; and Jehoshaphat ASPIN
  • Publication place: London,
  • Publisher: John Harris, St Paul's Church Yard,
  • Publication date: 1838.
  • Physical description: Double-page engraved chart, with contemporary hand-colour in outline.
  • Dimensions: 385 by 485mm (15.25 by 19 inches).
  • Inventory reference: 22665

Notes

The tracks of the major explorations of the late eighteenth century are shown, and those of the early decades of the nineteenth, including that of Lieutenant W. E. Parry on the first voyage of the 'Hecla' in search of the Northwest Passage, in 1819.

Published in 'An atlas adapted to the Abbe Gaultier's geographical games consisting of a set of maps coloured, and also another set containing merely the outlines of kingdoms and provinces, with the course of rivers, and the situation of the principal towns, islands, mountains, &c. &c' (1832-1838).

Provenance

Provenance
Freycinet family archives

Bibliography

  1. NLA Bib ID: 1192659.
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