Beautiful Antique Map on quality paper EXCELLENT condition and rescued from a disbound Georgian Encyclopedia: 

 

"PERSPECTIVE PROJECTION OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE ON THE PLANE OF THE HORIZON OF LONDON."

 
Projected, Drawn, and Engraved by Joseph Lowry, c1824, 
 
Engraving. Size is 15 1/2" x 17 1/2".
 
An unusual perspective with much interesting detail. This map includes the South Pole, some of South America, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, Malacca, and all of the island groups in the Southern Pacific Ocean. There is no representation of any part Antarctica.
 
Inscribed below the hemisphere:
 
  "In this projection the Eye is situated 68/100 of the radius distant from the surface of the sphere, it being the point very nearly whence equal portions of the spherical surface will be projected with the greatest equality on the plane --This has been generally called the globular projection and was first recommended by De La Hire and afterwards by various Foreign and English Mathematicians, particularly by Mr. P. Nicholson, but owing to various difficulties in drawing the curves, it has not before been executed except in the common case where the Poles are in the Circumference and the Meridians and Parallels improperly made circular."
 
Condition: Folds as issued, some foxing and spotting, Invisible tape repair to rear at left hand edge.
 
THIS MAP HAS A SMALL REPAIR THAT DOES NOT DETRACT FROM THE IMAGE QUALITY AND WILL ONLY BE DETECTED UPON CLOSE INSPECTION. AS WITH ALL OF OUR ITEMS IT COMES WITH A NO QUIBBLE ~ MONEY BACK GUARANTEE IF YOU ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH YOUR PURCHASE
 
THIS MAP IS AN ORIGINAL - ALMOST 190 YEARS OLD
AND NOT A REPRODUCTION
 
 
 
 
 
GOOD CONDITION
 
 
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Printed on quality paper 
Free from any text on the reverse
 
 
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An unusual perspective with much interesting detail. This map includes the South Pole, some of South America, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, Malacca, and all of the island groups in the Southern Pacific Ocean. There is no representation of any part Antarctica.   "In this projection the Eye is situated 68/100 of the radius distant from the surface of the sphere, it being the point very nearly whence equal portions of the spherical surface will be projected with the greatest equality on the plane --This has been generally called the globular projection and was first recommended by De La Hire and afterwards by various Foreign and English Mathematicians, particularly by Mr. P. Nicholson, but owing to various difficulties in drawing the curves, it has not before been
An unusual perspective with much interesting detail. This map includes the South Pole, some of South America, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, Malacca, and all of the island groups in the Southern Pacific Ocean. There is no representation of any part Antarctica.   "In this projection the Eye is situated 68/100 of the radius distant from the surface of the sphere, it being the point very nearly whence equal portions of the spherical surface will be projected with the greatest equality on the plane --This has been generally called the globular projection and was first recommended by De La Hire and afterwards by various Foreign and English Mathematicians, particularly by Mr. P. Nicholson, but owing to various difficulties in drawing the curves, it has not before been