Tallis' Map of the Eastern & Western Hemispheres Engraver(s)_Girolamo Porro Folding map of the British

Folding map of the British Empire

This map of Negropoonte was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and historiated initial

Sextus was read widely over the following 300 years

comprehending all the Empires

The classical muses on this title page represent Chronology

Tallis' Map of the Eastern & Western Hemispheres Engraver(s)_Girolamo Porro Folding map of the BritishThe map of the Eastern Hemisphere tracks the overland route to India (subject of a separate map in the series) and on to Australia. John Tallis the younger (1817 76) is best remembered for his hugely popular "Illustrated Atlas" published serially from the mid 1840s onwards and in its complete form in 1851. He was born in Stourbridge in Worcestershire in about 1818 and it is likely that he stayed in the Midlands working as a publisher in Birmingham,