1806, Pallas/Mentelle, Mappe Monde, carte ancienne, World Map, antiquarian map.

Condition : very good, small stains in the margins, two minor stains at the edges of the hemispheres.
Illustrator/geographer : Peter Simon Pallas and Edme Mentelle, engraved by Pierre François Tardieu.
Format : 42 x 32 cm (65 x 50 cm).
Colour : hand-coloured (old).
Publisher / Engraver : Paris, Pierre Gilles Chanlaire and Edme Mentelle.
Date : 1806.

Magnificent and very unusual double-page engraved map.

Double-hemisphere map of the world taken from Mentelle's Atlas Nouveau, published in Paris in 1779. This is a remarkable physical map of the earth, showing several extensive offshore mountain ranges, entitled Des Alpes Septentrionales and Des Alpes Meridionales in the Pacific Ocean and Suite Des Alpes in the Atlantic Ocean and again in the Indian Ocean. Other notable features include an excellent example of the West Bay and the Northwest Passage, as well as incomplete examples from New Zealand and Australia. One of Tardieu's earliest works.