Wallis’ Map of Poland Dodecanese centrefold split with old repair

centrefold split with old repair on verso

Leboff and Demuth draw attention to the delicate way in which the lines are drawn (so that they do not ‘swamp’ the important street names) and note the striking border

Dalmatische

Greater awareness of maps led to greater use of map imagery across the board – a minority of maps in the book were used for finding the way from A-B

some restoration with small areas of loss along the folds made good

Wallis’ Map of Poland Dodecanese centrefold split with old repairThis map of Poland was published in Oddys New General Atlas of the World. It is coloured according to the third partition of 1795, by which the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth was divided between Prussia, Austria and Russia. James Wallis (fl. 1810 1825) was born in Southampton in 1784, the son of a bricklayer. Apprenticed to John Roper in 1799, he learned the art of engraving. In later life he is variously recorded as a commission and discount agent