HONDIUS, Henricus (1563-1611). Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula . Amsterdam, 1641 [or later]. Hand-colored engraved map, single sheet, 503 x 593 mm, showing the world in two hemispheres, the borders richly decorated with allegorical depictions of the four elements and of the continents, medallion portraits of Julius Caesar Ptolemy, Mercator and Jodocus Hondius at the corners, and celestial sphere at upper center, French text on verso. Colored by a contemporary hand. (Folds reinforced in margins on verso, slight creasing along fold, minor light foxing.) Matted and framed. Provenance : Anonymous owner (Christie's New York, 5 December 1997, lot 186). Second state (of four) of one of the most important and decorative world maps of the mid-17th century. First published in 1630 as part of Jan Jansson's and H. Hondius's revision of the Mercator-Hondius atlas, the map was one of the earliest to show California as an island. Other innovations include the depiction of the northwestern coastline of Australia and a more correct representation of north-east Canada with Baffin Island ("Queen Anne's forland") shown correctly as an island rather than a peninsula. This copy was issued with one of the French editions of the atlas, published in 1641 and later. Shirley 336; Koeman Me 35, no. 278.
HONDIUS, Henricus (1563-1611). Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula . Amsterdam, 1641 [or later]. Hand-colored engraved map, single sheet, 503 x 593 mm, showing the world in two hemispheres, the borders richly decorated with allegorical depictions of the four elements and of the continents, medallion portraits of Julius Caesar Ptolemy, Mercator and Jodocus Hondius at the corners, and celestial sphere at upper center, French text on verso. Colored by a contemporary hand. (Folds reinforced in margins on verso, slight creasing along fold, minor light foxing.) Matted and framed. Provenance : Anonymous owner (Christie's New York, 5 December 1997, lot 186). Second state (of four) of one of the most important and decorative world maps of the mid-17th century. First published in 1630 as part of Jan Jansson's and H. Hondius's revision of the Mercator-Hondius atlas, the map was one of the earliest to show California as an island. Other innovations include the depiction of the northwestern coastline of Australia and a more correct representation of north-east Canada with Baffin Island ("Queen Anne's forland") shown correctly as an island rather than a peninsula. This copy was issued with one of the French editions of the atlas, published in 1641 and later. Shirley 336; Koeman Me 35, no. 278.
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