£80 - £120
Four early maps 'Typus Orbis Terrarum,' double hemisphere engraved map based on Mercator`s famous world map with several updates by Jodocus Hondius. Terra Australis Incognita fills the Southern Hemisphere and connects to New Guinea in the region of Australia. Mercator`s Northwest Passage and interesting polar islands have been replaced with a non-descript landmass. The eastern coast of Asia has been revised to include a Korean Peninsula. Hondiu's favourite quotation from the Psalms to the bottom. Page 39 (measuring 32cmx 20.5cm) from Samuel Purchas's 'Purchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all ages ... containing a Theological and Geologicall Historie of Asia, Africa, and America ..,' published 1626 by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone; With two other leaves from the same work depicting Western Mexico and Cuba; Tommaso Porcacchi. 'Descrittione dell'Isola di Corfu,' vignette copperplate map, head a capital piece, Simon Galignani, Girolamo Porro, [not from the first edition, most likely 1604-1686]. (4)
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