Carte Du Monde de Marc Paul /
Carte Du Monde de Lacques Castaldo/
Carte Du Monde de Miguel Lopez

(Marco Polo / Miguel Lopez / etc.)

Issued Frankfort, Germany, 1719 for A.M. Mallet

Charming early 18th century copper engraved map, with pleasing full hand color. Few examples are encountered with such nice detailed hand color.

Interesting details include the huge southern continent seen in the bottom map, as well as the huge bulbous western region assigned to North America.

The image has a near folk-art feel, a style of cartographic image quite unique to this time in history. Utterly unlike anything produced today and of modern aesthetic appeal for this very reason.

Mostly clean & well preserved example, trivial blank margin corner staining & edge toning which visually testifies to the age and patina. If this were an antique coin, it would have a nice surface.

Sheet measures c. 7" W x 8" H.

Printed area measures c. 5" W x 6 1/2" H.

Tooleys Dictionary of Mapmakers, v. 3. p.196

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