GLOBE TERESTRE.

Handsome print of a globe outside a large building. The continent of Asia is facing us, a ribbon bearing the title is draped across the stand of the globe. Nicolas Sanson was founder of the French school of mapmakers, at a time when the leadership in European cartography passed from the Low Countries to France. This map was published in Bion’s treatise on globes. Nicolas Bion was a famous French mathematical and scientific instrument maker.

Fine condition. Mounted size: 29.5 x 36cm