Hemisphere Of The New Continent - West

Hemisphere Of The New Continent - West is an artwork realized in 1834  by  Johann Georg Heck .

Original colored print.

Good conditions, except for yellowing of the paper and very little tears along the margins.

Original title  Hemisphere du Nouveau Continent (Ouest) . Printed by   Engelmann & Compagnie, S.F., Paris.

This print, representing the Western Hemisphere,  is the plate n. 6 from " Atlas geographique, astronomique et historique, servant a l'intelligence de l'histoire ancienne, du moyen age et moderne et a la lecture des voyages les plus recens. Dresse d'apres les meilleurs materiaux tant francais qu'etrangers conformement aus progres de la science, par J.G. Heck. "

Johann Georg Heck (1795 - 1857) was a German bookseller and publisher, lithographer, cartographer, geographer and author. He became known through his work: the Illustrated atlas for Conversations lexicon, Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Sciences and Arts, one of the largest German view works of the 19th century.

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