Hondius, Jodocus; LeClerc, Jean

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

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Description

Orbis terrae novissima descriptio. Authore Gerardo Mercatore, nuperimè verò iuxta recentiores Cosmographos aucta et recognita. [Paris]: J. LeClerc, 1602
ink,paper

Engraved double-hemisphere world map (516 x 332 mm) after Gerard Mercator, upper panel with title, lower panel with quotation from the book of Psalms ("Domini est terra et plenitudo eius..."), upper corners with circles containing wind names in Dutch and Italian, lower corners with circular diagrams containing the climatic zones and phases of the moon, upper portion with astronomical sphere held to view by two winged beasts, lower portion with compass rose. Colored and outlined by hand and with some over-painting. Lightly toned, some wrinkling along lower edge, center crease (indicated it having possibly been bound up in an atlas).Glazed and framed. Unexamined out of frame.

Literature

Shirley 233

Catalogue Note

"[This] world map is after Gerard Mercator and is based on the two hemispheres issued by his son in 1587. ... Copies with the original date of 1602 are rare. As well as being produced separately, Le Clerc's maps are occasionally found bound up in Mercator-Hondius atlases of the time."