Robert Greene

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An English cartographer of the late 17th Century. His earliest publications were maps of England and Germany in 1673. Many of the works which bear his name appear to involve partners, although he owned his own “presses to Print”. Greene's double-hemisphere world map of 1676 is possibly the earliest world map engraved and published in England to include a pair of polar projections, and one of the earliest to show the coastline of New Zealand.

Robert Greene's 'A New Map of the World', double-hemisphere world map, largely in black and white with some added colour by hand.