The First Prussian Sea Atlas. 1 map on 12 double page sheets. Copperplate outline hand colored map of the World on Mercator’s projection, accompanied by key map. Title of atlas on map III. Published in Berlin in 1749 with the approval of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. Each map laid in loosely in folder, with a small ink stamp of crowned eagle in lower right corner, identified as a Prussian revenue stamp. The atlas includes 7 pages of descriptive text. Map no. [1]: Carte generale du globe terrestre, engraved by N.F. Sauerbrey. Maps showing political boundaries, major cities, rivers, lakes and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. The atlas was prepared by the Swiss cartographer, Isaac Brouckner, under the auspices of the Berlin Academy of Sciences and under the direction of Field Marshal Count Samuel von Schmettau, to whom it was dedicated. The information based on previously unpublished data which Count von Schmettau placed at Brouckner's disposal. This work is one of the first to show a cartographic reference to Bering's second voyage. From the Warren Heckrott collections.
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The First Prussian Sea Atlas. 1 map on 12 double page sheets. Copperplate outline hand colored map of the World on Mercator’s projection, accompanied by key map. Title of atlas on map III. Published in Berlin in 1749 with the approval of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. Each map laid in loosely in folder, with a small ink stamp of crowned eagle in lower right corner, identified as a Prussian revenue stamp. The atlas includes 7 pages of descriptive text. Map no. [1]: Carte generale du globe terrestre, engraved by N.F. Sauerbrey. Maps showing political boundaries, major cities, rivers, lakes and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. The atlas was prepared by the Swiss cartographer, Isaac Brouckner, under the auspices of the Berlin Academy of Sciences and under the direction of Field Marshal Count Samuel von Schmettau, to whom it was dedicated. The information based on previously unpublished data which Count von Schmettau placed at Brouckner's disposal. This work is one of the first to show a cartographic reference to Bering's second voyage. From the Warren Heckrott collections.
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