Amérique Septentrionale. Florides et Iles Lucayes. No. 62. [Map of Florida and the Bahamas].

VANDERMAELEN, Philippe Marie.

$1,250.00

Item Number: 137108

Brussels: Lithographed by H. Ode, 1825.

Rare hand-colored lithograph map of South Florida, the Keys and the Bahamas from renowned 19th century Belgian cartographer Philippe Vandermaelen’s Atlas Universel. One page, the map displays South Florida and the Bahamas including major cities as of 1825 with numerous Native American trails and roads recorded and an inset text regarding the flora and fauna of the Everglades. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 29 inches by 27 inches.

Published in 1827 and consisting of approximately 380 conically projected sheets of maps in six volumes, Belgian geographer's Vandermaelen's Atlas Universel was the first atlas produced using the method of lithography and the first to use the same large uniform scale for all of the maps included in its pages. Regarded as one of the most important and remarkable innovations in the private enterprise of cartography, the maps were uniquely designed to be joined into a three-dimensional terrestrial globe with a diameter of approximately 25 feet.