South America - Wells 1700
- Old South America Map - Wells 1700 - This is an exquisite full-color Reproduction printed on high-quality gloss paper, art paper or canvas.
Print Size: 23.00 x 27.68 inches
The following towns are featured: a map dedicated to His Highness William Duke of Gloucester. It appears in various editions of Well's A New Set of Maps published from 1700 to 1738. Mathematician and geographer Edward Wells taught at Christchurch, Oxford. His atlas was intended to be a teaching tool for one of his students, the young William, Duke of Gloucester, who died in 1700 at the age of 11. Wells dedicated the atlas to William.
This Map is Situated in: Continent of South America.
SKU: ITSO0002
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