World in spheres 1750 Vaugondy engraved hand colored map Tajo River Springfield

Springfield

359 pages plus index

Card depict various themes including home life

Scarce 18th century French miniature woodcut map

in a Storm" and half pg: "General Siegel Forcing His Prisoners to Draw Off his Cannon at the Battle of Springfield"

World in spheres 1750 Vaugondy engraved hand colored map Tajo River SpringfieldMappe Monde. (World map in hemispheres). Issued c. 1750 1768 (1768 re issue of 1750 version, likely from a variant plate), Paris by Vaugondy. Charming mid eighteenth century engraved miniature map with lovely full hand color. The entire north west coast of America unknown and undefined. Australia only partially outlined in an erroneous shape with speculative cost attaching the continent to van Diemens island and New Guinea. Original fold lines as