Lotter’s World Map Jacques Nicolas Bellin Latin text on verso

Latin text on verso

more accurately it reflects the territorial extent and ambitions of Napoleon’s French Empire

is considered to be his last significant work before his retirement

but the topical jokes and puns would have been readily understood by the intended audience in 1914

and includes reference notes on tides

Lotter’s World Map Jacques Nicolas Bellin Latin text on versoMappa Totius Mundi adornata juxta Observationes dnn. Academiae Regalis Scientiarum et nonnullorum aliorum secundum annotationes recentissimas edita per Guillelmum de lIsle Lotters world map, after Guillaume de lIsle, reflects the typical extent of mid eighteenth century European knowledge, with various incomplete and conjectural coastlines, notably the west coast of north America and the eastern coasts of New Zealand and Australia, the latter linked