Peter van der Krogt lists another of these curious globes as item BLA V. It would appear that they are hand-drawn nineteenth-century facsimiles from Venice; there is a pair - a terrestrial such as the one offered here, and the accompanying celestial - in the Portuguese Embassy to the Holy See in Rome which is recorded as being in the building at the end of World War I, when the Portuguese purchased the house and contents from a wealthy member of the Italian navy.

Although barely discernible here, van der Krogt also transcribes the cartouche in the South Atlantic as NOVA ORBIS TERRARUM DEXCRIPTIO Auctor in Venetiae Anno CIDIDCXXII Guiljemus Blaeuw. Further to this he describes the cartouche placed in North America (pictured) which follows the text of Blaeu's original. However, there also appear the initials M.P., which do not appear on any original Blaeu globe and, van der Krogt asserts, suggest and eighteenth-century influence.