This is an attractive copper engraved map based on Ortelius and Gastaldi. Japan appears as a huge island in the kite-shape popularized by Ortelius. Another prominent feature is the large New Guinea in the lower right corner of the map, which is separated from Terre incognitae Par Australis by a narrow straight. This is the second state, with a line encircling the continent. Engraved by Porro. Latin text on verso.

Giovanni Botero (1533-1617) was a Jesuit scholar who taught rhetoric and philosophy, became one of the most notable economists of the sixteenth century, and published the popular geographical work Le Relationi Universali.

References: Yeo #16.

Condition: B+

A dark impression on a bright sheet with minor offsetting. There are dampstains and rippling of the paper along the edges of the sheet.