GERARD MERCATOR, Asia ex magna orbis terre etc., Amsterdam, 1630. bibliophilic-essay-11 After Lewis & Clark's celebrated

After Lewis & Clark's celebrated expedition up the Missouri River into the Pacific Northwest

and detail of French cartography was unrivaled in this period

using the map that accompanied the wildly popular printed volumes on the journey

Wilkes returned to New York Harbor with only two of his six ships and a mountain of ethnographic

It is particularly attached to the vicinity of cascades and falls

GERARD MERCATOR, Asia ex magna orbis terre etc., Amsterdam, 1630. bibliophilic-essay-11 After Lewis & Clark's celebratedGerard Mercator Asia ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris Desumpta studio et industria G. M. Iumioris Amsterdam, 1630 14 7 8 x 18 3 8 in. Mercator's map of Asia, in old color, showing the continent in detail and offering a fascinating cartographic snapshot of late sixteenth century geographic thought. The centrality of the continent is emphasized in the maps composition; parts of Europe, Africa, North America, and Australia are all