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ERIN (DATES UNKNOWN) IMPERIAL AIRWAYS. 1938. 25 1/4x39 3/4 inches, 64x101 cm. Curwen Press Ltd., London. Condition A-: repaired tears in left margin. Ceres, which was a Short S23 Empire Flying Boat, is presented over a photomontage of a globe. "In this map the artist has based his design on a photographic projection reminiscent of the 16th-century Florentine cartographer, Waldseemueller. It was on Waldseemueller's map of 1507 that the America's were first shown . . . the lower four sectors, with the detached segment, show how it is possible to make a flat reproduction of the spherical surface of the earth."
