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Stock# 93224
Description
Antique map of Oceania from Henry Cuthbert Tunison's Peerless Universal Atlas of The World. A table in the upper right notes the possessions of Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, Spain, and Portugal in the area. Byer and Morrell, phantom islands whose existence was fabricated by American explorer Benjamin Morrell in his ghost-written memoir A Narrative of Four Voyages, are northwest of Hawaii.
Condition Description
Half-page maps "Tunison's Australia" and "Tunison's Algeria, Tunis, and Marocco" on verso.
