Original hancoloured antique map.
Robert and Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville.
Printed for Robert Sayer 1769
This map pre dates Captain James Cooks voyage and the mapping of Eastern Australia ( New Holland )
The lower margin describes the global land mass at 148,510,627 square kilometers.
The actual figure is 148,94 million but the 1769 figure does not include Antarctica which is yet to be discovered and on this map is marked as Parts Unknown.
The Equatorial Line illustrated crossing the equator across both Hemispheres is the annual tract across the earths surface where there is equal night and day.
