Decorated with a title cartouche, elephants, lions, ostriches on the land areas, and galleons and sea monsters on the sea. Only coastal towns are named on the Cape, with the printing covering much of the unknown territory. Also included are various other mythical lakes and rivers including the famous Lake Sachaf of Laurent Fries. The map was replaced by a two hemispheres world map prepared by Willem's son Joan from 1662 onwards.Īfrica 'Africae nova descriptio': Much of the geographical information of this carte-à-figures map is still based on the Ptolemaic maps, with the Nile shown with its source in the Lakes Zaire and Zaflan. It appeared in the Blaeu Atlas from 1630 until 1658. The map has decorative cartouches for the title, dedication and explanation, two spheres for the north and south poles, a compass roses and numerous ships and sea monsters. Shirley, The Mapping of the World, Entry 255). Along the bottom are seven vignettes showing the seven ancient wonders of the world: the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus over the harbour at Rhodos, the Pyramids, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus at Caria, the Temple of Diane, the Statue of Jupiter, and the conical lighthouse of Alexandria.' (R. Down the sides are, on the left, four panels illustrating the elements (Fire, Water, Air and Earth), and on the right, the four seasons. Along the top are allegorical of the sun and the moon and the known five planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The most striking characteristic are the superb border decorations. The engraver Josua van den Ende signed in the lower right corner. 'The map has been expertly reduced from the Blaeu's large world map of 1605. celebrated as one of the supreme examples of the map maker's art'. World 'Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis': Shirley describes this world map as a 'classic single-sheet world map on Mercator's projection. From the most expensive book published in the 17th century, an eleven-volume atlas containing 593 hand-coloured maps. With their decorative panels of costumed figures, city views and mythological personifications, they helped establish an iconography in the popular imagination which endures to this day. These five maps represent the apogee of seventeenth century Dutch cartography. A matching set of the World and the Continents by Willem J.
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