A rare double page folio map: 'Southern Hemisphere' [Polar projection], from John Pinkerton's Modern Atlas, published Philadelphia 1818. Hand coloured outlines and tints; depicting Australia, Polynesia and parts of South America and Africa, issued after the search for Terra Australis had been abandoned, but prior to the discovery of Antarctica - consequently the South Pole depicted as vast ocean called 'Icy Sea', the interiors of 'New Holland' and Africa vague and 'unknown'. 57 cm x 81.5 cm