the Eastern hemisphere containing Europe, Asia and, most notably, a truly anachronistic delineation of Australasia, with Western Australia, or Nieuw Holland, joined northwards to New Guinea at Carpentaria, and trailing away indefinitely to the south to absorb Tasmania, with only vestigial stretches of the New Zealand coast recorded, all this despite the region and these separate land masses being defined over a century earlier by the Dutch explorer, Abel Tasman. The map extends to a somewhat enlarged Iceland, and Greenland, upper left, with the title panel upper right, and has a large compass rose lower centre,
engraved map with original hand-colouring, 325 x 365 mm. (12 3/4 x 14 3/8 in), a central vertical fold,