Subject: World
Period: 1713 (published)
Publication: Universus Terrarum Orbis Scriptorum
Color: Hand Color
Size:
9.8 x 6.8 inches
24.9 x 17.3 cm
A finely engraved double hemisphere map based on Rumold Mercator's great map of 1587. It includes a large southern continent, no Korean peninsula, the "kite" shaped Japan, and several mythical islands in the North Atlantic. The engraving is in the Italian style with a stipple-engraved sea and simple border. Giuseppe Rosaccio originally engraved this map for his edition of Ptolemy's Geographia in 1598. The map was very popular and subsequently appeared in Lasor a Varea's work more than a century after it was first engraved.
References: cf. Shirley #217.
Condition: A
A clean and bright example with some minor creasing confined to the blank margins.
