Untitled 4 SouthAmerica Columbus expected to find the

Columbus expected to find the East Indies because of Ptolemy’s calculations and assertion about longitude

The extended title of the 1776 edition includes the statement that it is "reduc'd from" a large-scale map by Sauthier

Galveston Entrance

particularly in the less explored areas of Asia

unlike most maps of the period

Untitled 4 SouthAmerica Columbus expected to find theSertum orchidaceum, an album so titled of watercolour drawings of orchids. English, mid nineteenth century Watercolour drawings of orchids and flowering plants, captioned at foot HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED LARGE SCALE WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS. A pencil note on the fly leaf reads These drawings are thought to be done by the wife of MacFarlane the celebrated orchid painter (i. e. James Laird MacFarlane, 1836 1913). PROVENANCE: Samuel Williams Fuller (c. 1777 1857)