LaSalle Waldseemuller Globe Reviews
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LaSalle Waldseemuller Globe Feature
- 12" Antique Styled Oceans Old World Globe
- Waldseemuller 16th Century Period Mapping
- Victorian Design with 1000's of Place Names
- Light Color Wood Stand with Cradel Mount Die-cast Metal Meridian
Rene-Robert de LaSalle was a French explorer who sailed to Canada at the Age of 23, and learned from the Iroquois people of a great river, which led to the sea. Thinking the river flowed into the Gulf of California and a possible western trade route to China, LaSalle led a group that explored the Great Lakes in 1679-80, and in 1682 he sailed down the Illinois River to the Mississippi River and all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, claiming the entire Mississippi River Basin - what he called the Louisiana territory - for France.Perched atop an elegant Victorian-style hardwood base, the LaSalle 12-inch Waldseemuller globe is a fitting way to highlight both globe and stand. This globe ball was inspired by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemuller, best known for his Universalis Cosmographia woodblock map dated 1507.Martin Waldseemuller was a German cartographer best known for his Universalis Cosmographia, a 12 sheet woodblock map dated 1507. Not only was it one of the first maps to percis
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