Item #24448 Map of Discovery. Western Hemisphere [with] Eastern Hemisphere. 2 Maps. N. C. Wyeth.

Map of Discovery. Western Hemisphere [with] Eastern Hemisphere. 2 Maps.

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1928. A handsome pair of color pictorial maps illustrated by the famed American painter N. C. Wyeth, from the murals which decorated the National Geographic building in Washington DC, and which were issued as supplements to the magazine.

The Wyeth painted decorative borders, "painted in quaint Sixteenth Century style", show (Western Hemisphere) a mermaid and the god Neptune as well as the sun and moon; the Eastern Hemisphere shows explorers and map makers at the bottom corners, and Zeus hurling thunderbolts & the wind blowing at the upper corners.

Maps 18 x 16", paper 18 1/2 x 16 3/4". Original folds flattened; slight rubbing at folds of Eastern Hemisphere map. Very good condition. Item #24448

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