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PLANCIUS, Petrus (1552-1622). Oribis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendates. Amsterdam, 1594/1599 [or later].
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PLANCIUS, Petrus (1552-1622). Oribis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendates. Amsterdam, 1594/1599 [or later].
Engraved hand-colored twin-hemisphere world map, image 403 x 573 mm (406 x 578 mm sheet), regions of the world illustrated in the four corners, 2 celestial spheres. (Trimmed closely). Matted and framed.
A new world map, based on his map of 1590. 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 separate publications and not printed in standard atlas form; his 1594 world map was subsequently included in at least 8 editions of Linschoten's Itinerarium, from 1599 through 1634. “The elaborate pictorial borders were inspired by drawings in the works of Theodore de Bry published a few years earlier and established a pattern of cartographical decoration that lasted over a century. The regions of the world are exemplified by means of symbolical female figures, by landscape vignettes, and by lively pictures of animals indigenous to each area ... Plancius' map had a widespread influence on other map-makers ..." (Shirley 187).
Engraved hand-colored twin-hemisphere world map, image 403 x 573 mm (406 x 578 mm sheet), regions of the world illustrated in the four corners, 2 celestial spheres. (Trimmed closely). Matted and framed.
A new world map, based on his map of 1590. 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 separate publications and not printed in standard atlas form; his 1594 world map was subsequently included in at least 8 editions of Linschoten's Itinerarium, from 1599 through 1634. “The elaborate pictorial borders were inspired by drawings in the works of Theodore de Bry published a few years earlier and established a pattern of cartographical decoration that lasted over a century. The regions of the world are exemplified by means of symbolical female figures, by landscape vignettes, and by lively pictures of animals indigenous to each area ... Plancius' map had a widespread influence on other map-makers ..." (Shirley 187).