Old Flat Earth Map, 1811 by JC Hinrichs - German, French World Map - Interesting Colonial Atlas Chart Size:30x30 inches (75x75cm) work leaving or housewarming gift

work leaving or housewarming gift for someone from Battery Park City and Tribeca or someone interested in the history of early downtown Manhattan

This map does not include the British Isles or the Iberian Peninsula (Spain/Portugal)

old full colour map of the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey in the English Channel by master mapmaker Joan Blaeu from his workshop in Amsterdam and originally published in this Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus in 1665

and some villages too

Old Flat Earth Map, 1811 by JC Hinrichs - German, French World Map - Interesting Colonial Atlas Chart Size:30x30 inches (75x75cm) work leaving or housewarming giftA highly attractive, unusual and rare 'flat earth' world map published by German cartographer Johann Conrad Hinrichs in 1811. Technically, this map uses a stereographic azimuthal projection which basically means that you're looking down from the north pole and that it's split into four 'lobes'. This was an early and ingenious 'conformal' projection, which means that each of the landmasses are the correct size and shape. As you may know, the famous