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A New Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection with The Track of The Most Celebrated & Recent Navigators. Year: 1845 Cartographer: Henry Teesdale & Co Engraver: John Dower This fantastic large-scale New Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection details the most celebrated and recent navigators and is also notable for the Northwest Passage and Texas. The map in question is a folding map consisting of two large sheets. The map is dissected & mounted onto linen, as issued. The map is vibrantly hand coloured of the period. The map does have a few faint stains and foxing, otherwise the condition is fine. This map is a stunning example of a full, vibrant, period hand coloured folding world map. This map is an extremely rare issue with very important updates to 1845. The map is an extraordinary compendium of oceanic exploration and contains voyage tracks from the 15th century to those contemporaneous with the map including those relating to polar and northwest passage related as well as south polar explorations. This is an impressive 1845 large format map of the world by Henry Teesdale. The map covers the entire world on a Mercator projection with copious notes and annotations throughout. The map is thorough, but predictably presented via a highly Anglo-centric perspective - for example the discoveries of John Wilkes and the U.S. Exploring Expedition are completely omitted, no doubt in an effort to bolster the competing exploratory claims of Englishman John Ross Teesdale's map is beautifully presented in two sections, each of which have been dissected into sixteen panels and backed on linen for easy folding and unfolding. The map folds into a beautifully tooled leather binder with marbled endpapers. The enormous size of this map allows Teesdale to accommodate a quantity detailed annotation explaining of natural wonders, historical events, expirations, and political treaties. These are so prolific and charming we will allow them to speak for themselves: Texas is represented at its fullest extent as in independent republic. An annotation reads: Texas was acknowledged an Independent State by England, November 1840. Just off the coast of Norway, at the site of the legendary Loften Maelstrom, the following annotation reads: The Maelstrom, This celebrated Whirlpool is an immense circle of a mile and a half in diameter; the Velocity increasing as it approximates the center, there forming a vortex, the largest Ship meet with instant destruction on entering it. Off the north-eastern coast of Australia the Great Barrier Reef is recognised in conjunction with the HMS Bounty Mutiny: Great Barrier Reefs, here the Ship Pandora Capt. Edwards with 14 of the Mutinous crew of the Bounty on board who were captured at Otaheite was lost, 35 of the Crew and 4 of the Prisoners perished in the latter end of June 1791. In Liberia, Africa: This district has been purchased from the Native Chiefs by a Company of American Philanthropists, (called the Colonization Society) for the purpose of forming Settlements for the Emancipated Slaves of the United States, and is now in a flourishing condition. There are just a few of the dozens of interesting annotations throughout. Henry Teesdale (1776-1855) published maps and atlases, many in collaboration with this map's engraver, John Crane Dower (1791-1847), a very prolific engraver, draughtsman, publisher, and printer. The prominence of Dower's name in the map's title and the absence of a mapmaker listed on the map suggest that Dower's role in its production was more than the engraving of it. Henry Teesdale who published two important maps, also by Dower, relating to Australia in 1831, became a partner in the Royal Bank of Australia in 1845.