Author: JEHOSOPHAT ASPIN
Title: A Plane Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection. With the Tracks & Discoveries of the Principal and Most Recent Navigators> for the Elucidation of The Abbé Gaultier's Geographical Games.
Description: John Harris, 1838. Engraved map with contemporary outline hand colouring, 400 x 470 mm. with central fold and a few closed tears to the blank border. Most commonly seen as a double hemisphere map, this is a similar map to that used by Harris for his various jigsaws and board games. Gaultier was a French educationalist who fled the Revolution, settling in England> he believed in teaching geography by the use of games.

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