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, with "T 2 pag. 284" added at top right.

References: Shirley #217.

Condition: A

An excellent impression, issued folding, on a clean bright sheet with some faint pencil notations in bottom blank margin.