DATED 1876, DRAWN BY M.M.SCOTT AND DANIEL VIERGE, ENGRAVED BY FORTUNE MEAULLE

This pictorial diorama presents the world from California to Indian and the Equator to the North Pole. It is illustrated with particular views, such as Niagara Falls, Chicago, a Hindu cremation, a Tuareg warrior, among others, together with flags and sketches of seventy-nine individuals in traditional costumes. Interestingly, it notes a polar free Greenland, called 'Mer Libre', Trans-Atlantic shipping lanes and achievements of explorers.