WORLD - FLORIANO, ANTONIO.
WORLD - FLORIANO, ANTONIO. [ The World ]. Venice: Antonio Floriano, c. 1555. Engraved map of the World on two joined sheets, 462 x 808mm, trimmed with some of the original extended margin remaining (Some discolouration, creasing at centrefold, minor loss to upper left corner.) A VERY RARE AND VISUALLY STRIKING MAP OF THE WORLD. Floriano, who later served as a sculptor and painter to Maximillian II, created this clever and artistically virtuous adaptation of Gerhard Mercator's 1538 bi-cordiform world map. It bisects the world at the Equator and splays each hemisphere into thirty-six gores, which Floriano suggested could be "reduced into spherical form". Precisely following Mercator's example, the present map shows the Americas as being entirely separate from Asia, and divided into two labelled continents, North and South. A massive ice-sheet covers the Arctic regions, and a mysterious continental landmass occupies the space centred on the South Pole, centuries before the discovery of Antarctica. The upper corners are adorned with roundels featuring the portraits of Ptolemy and Floriano. Shirley:1983 no.99, Tooley:1939 no. 23, watermark similar to Woodward:1996 watermark 203
WORLD - FLORIANO, ANTONIO.
WORLD - FLORIANO, ANTONIO. [ The World ]. Venice: Antonio Floriano, c. 1555. Engraved map of the World on two joined sheets, 462 x 808mm, trimmed with some of the original extended margin remaining (Some discolouration, creasing at centrefold, minor loss to upper left corner.) A VERY RARE AND VISUALLY STRIKING MAP OF THE WORLD. Floriano, who later served as a sculptor and painter to Maximillian II, created this clever and artistically virtuous adaptation of Gerhard Mercator's 1538 bi-cordiform world map. It bisects the world at the Equator and splays each hemisphere into thirty-six gores, which Floriano suggested could be "reduced into spherical form". Precisely following Mercator's example, the present map shows the Americas as being entirely separate from Asia, and divided into two labelled continents, North and South. A massive ice-sheet covers the Arctic regions, and a mysterious continental landmass occupies the space centred on the South Pole, centuries before the discovery of Antarctica. The upper corners are adorned with roundels featuring the portraits of Ptolemy and Floriano. Shirley:1983 no.99, Tooley:1939 no. 23, watermark similar to Woodward:1996 watermark 203
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