Subject: Arctic & Scandinavia
Period: 1585 (published)
Publication: Spieghel der Werelt
Color: Black & White
Size:
4.3 x 3 inches
10.9 x 7.6 cm
Delightful miniature map based on Ortelius' important map of the Arctic regions and the North Atlantic with the mythical islands of Drogeo (unnamed) and Friisland. Greenland is shown as a large island separated from the Pigme Ihio Habitant (land in habited by pigmies). On a full sheet (5.5 x 7.5") of Latin text. On the recto of this sheet is the map of Livonia.
References: Burden #49; Ginsberg #27.
Condition: A
Small printer's creases in the lower right portion of the image, else fine.