"Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita", Visscher, Nicolas

Subject: World
Period: 1664 (published)
Color: Hand Color
Size: 12.1 x 18.6

This superb double hemisphere world map is surrounded by engravings including allegorical representations of the continents as well as native inhabitants and wildlife. Visscher's decorations were so popular several other cartographers copied them. Two diagrams depicting the Ptolemaic and Copernican theories of the solar system appear within the cusps of the hemispheres. The northwest coast of North America is greatly exaggerated with the fictional El Streto d'Anian, while California is shown as a peninsula. In the Pacific, Western Australia, Van Diemens Landt, and a bit of New Zealand are also noted. This is the first state. 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 #431; Poortman & Augusteijn #118.
Condition: B+
A sharp impression on a bright sheet with toning along the edges of the sheet and narrow side margins, as issued. There is a professionally repaired centerfold separation that enters 1/4" into image at bottom.