Lot 95
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PLANCIUS, PETRUS. Orbis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendatus [title repeated in Dutch]. [Amsterdam, 1590 or later]. Engraved map, single sheet, 294 x 518 mm. (11½ x 20 3/8 in.), pasted to old guard, originally folded in 3, small repaired tears at centerfold and at extremities of outer folds affecting a letter of engraver's name and text on verso, minor fraying to outer edges. Engraved twin-hemisphere map of the world, after Rumold Mercator's world map of 1587, state 2, with the addition of the label "Magallanica" to the southern continents, Dutch biblical text on verso. First published in a Dutch Bible of 1590 and reprinted in Bibles of 1612 and 1621, this is the earlier and less common of Plancius's world maps. "It 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.

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PLANCIUS, PETRUS. Orbis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendatus [title repeated in Dutch]. [Amsterdam, 1590 or later]. Engraved map, single sheet, 294 x 518 mm. (11½ x 20 3/8 in.), pasted to old guard, originally folded in 3, small repaired tears at centerfold and at extremities of outer folds affecting a letter of engraver's name and text on verso, minor fraying to outer edges. Engraved twin-hemisphere map of the world, after Rumold Mercator's world map of 1587, state 2, with the addition of the label "Magallanica" to the southern continents, Dutch biblical text on verso. First published in a Dutch Bible of 1590 and reprinted in Bibles of 1612 and 1621, this is the earlier and less common of Plancius's world maps. "It 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.