1772 De Vaugondy Visscher Large Antique Map of California & SW America Solomon Islands This large beautifully hand coloured

1772 De Vaugondy Visscher Large Antique Map of California & SW America Solomon Islands This large beautifully hand coloured This large beautifully hand coloured original 1693 1st edition antique map of England & Wales by A H Jaillot after Nicolas Sanson was engraved in 1693 the date is engraved in the title and was published by Jaillot in his large elephant folio Atlas Nouveau He mapped lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean in greater detail and on a scale not previously achieved The work consists of extracts from two maps during a time period immediately prior to Cook's voyage to the region less than a decade later where numerous theories abounded on the NW Coast of America