Eberhard Werner Happel

German maps of the western and eastern hemispheres by Eberhard Werner Happel.

• Sold as a set of 2.
• Eberhard Werner Happel (German).
• Untitled pair of Eastern and Western hemispheres.
• Ulm, 1684.
• Two plates.
• Each is presented unframed.

Untitled pair of Eastern and Western hemispheres.

A decorative pair of maps of the world in two separate hemispheres, both with allegorical figures representing the Four Continents in the corners.

In the Western Hemisphere California is an island; a huge Great Lake is open-ended in the west; New Zealand is mapped according to Abel Tasman

In the Eastern Hemisphere, the Caspian Sea is wider than it is tall; the east coast of Australia is unmapped, pre-dating Cook's visit by three-quarters of a century.

Published in the Historia moderna Europae, an account of Europe's recent political history.