"Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita", Stoopendaal, Daniel

Subject: World
Period: 1729 (published)
Color: Hand Color
Size: 13.9 x 18.1

This decorative double hemisphere world map was issued in a Dutch Bible published by the Keur family. It is based on Visscher's Bible map of 1663 and is surrounded by nearly identical engravings, which include numerous exotic animals and four female allegorical representations of the continents. California is depicted as an island with a flat northern coastline labeled Nova Albion. A small island in the vicinity of Alaska is labeled Anian. In Asia, the Great Wall of China is illustrated and the northeastern coastline is severely truncated. Australia, Van Diemens Landt, and New Zealand have incomplete coastlines. New Guinea looks as if it may be attached to Australia. Tucked between the cusps of the map are astronomical diagrams illustrating the Copernican and Ptolemaic solar system theories. This is the third state with Pieter and Jacob Keur's imprint below the neatline at center. Dutch text on verso.See also lot 822 for Rodney Shirley's excellent reference work, The Mapping of the World, that discusses this map.

References: Shirley #498; Poortman & Augusteijn #130 GII-3.
Condition: B+
Issued folding on a bright sheet with professional repairs to two 1/4" holes in the image (in the upper astronomical diagram and in the eastern hemisphere adjacent to the Martin Vaz islands) with a minor amount of image replaced in facsimile. Professionally remargined at right and left.