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PLANCIUS, PETRUS (1552-1622). Orbis terrarum typus, de integro multis in locis emendatus [title repeated in Dutch]. [Amsterdam, 1590 or later]. Hand-colored engraved map of the world, single sheet, 327 x 535 mm., engraved by Baptisa van Doetecum, the map showing the world in two hemispheres, second state with the large southern continent lettered "Magallanica" in both hemispheres, strapwork border decoration with compass rose and armillary sphere, Dutch text on verso. (2-inch partly repaired tear affecting border and text on verso, 2 other small internal repairs at fore-borders, one small marginal tear, fore-margins neatly clipped away and pasted back down on new guards.)
The earliest of Plancius's three world maps, first published in a Dutch bible of 1590 and reprinted in Bibles of 1612 and 1621. Plancius, a minister of the Reformed Church, was the official cartographer of the Dutch East India Company from 1602 to 1619. Most of his maps are quite scarce, as they were not printed in standard atlas form; his 1594 world map, which bears the same title as the present map, is better known, as it was included in at least 8 editions of Linschoten's Itinerarium, from 1599 through 1634. This earlier map "incorporates the improvements found on the post-1587 world map of Ortelius including a reshaped South America and the insertion of the Solomon Isles. Plancius has introduced yet further changes of his own, based on the latest Portuguese information regarding the far west coast of America and the west coast of Asia. Japan is shown for the first time (not entirely correctly) as one small and three larger islands"-- Shirley 177.
The earliest of Plancius's three world maps, first published in a Dutch bible of 1590 and reprinted in Bibles of 1612 and 1621. Plancius, a minister of the Reformed Church, was the official cartographer of the Dutch East India Company from 1602 to 1619. Most of his maps are quite scarce, as they were not printed in standard atlas form; his 1594 world map, which bears the same title as the present map, is better known, as it was included in at least 8 editions of Linschoten's Itinerarium, from 1599 through 1634. This earlier map "incorporates the improvements found on the post-1587 world map of Ortelius including a reshaped South America and the insertion of the Solomon Isles. Plancius has introduced yet further changes of his own, based on the latest Portuguese information regarding the far west coast of America and the west coast of Asia. Japan is shown for the first time (not entirely correctly) as one small and three larger islands"-- Shirley 177.