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Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula à Pet. Kaerio. [cartographic material]

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Date:

[ca. 1621].

Reference:

R11981-484-X-E, Volume number: 41

Item no. (creator):

Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection #41

Local class no.:

H3/10000/[1630-1675]

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4143137

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Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection

World maps

Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula à Pet. Kaerio.
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Date(s):

[ca. 1621].

Place:

Amstelodami:

Place of creation:

Netherlands

Publisher:

excudebat Joannes Janssonius,

Extent:

1 map : hand col. outline ; 30 x 43 cm on sheet 49 x 59 cm.

Language of material:

Latin
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Engraver: Keere, Pieter van den, 1571-ca. 1646

Publisher: Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
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Pictorial relief.
Copperplate engraving.
Prime meridian runs down the center of the map. Displays strong rhumb lines radiating from compass roses along equator line.
Copied from Willem Bleau's 1606 map with minor changes to the cartouche and decorative emblishments. The map also contains additional annoations.
Illustrated with large sea birds and small sea monsters which appear throughout map along with illustrations of ships throughout Pacific and Indian Ocean. Also includes 2 insets (North Pole area - South Pole area ) located in the lower left and right corner.
Printed beneath title at top: "Ulterius Septentrionem versus America ominino est incognita sitnes aqua vel terra hoc Ioco incertum est plurimi tam exrerum circumstantijs, conjectant Americam ab hac parte Septentrionali mari succinctam."
Includes a decorative border. Along the top are allegorical representations of the sun and moon and the five known planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. On the left side are four panels illustrating the elements; Fire, Air, Water and Earth. On the right side the four seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Fall). Along the bottom are seven vignettes showing the seven wonders of the world: the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus over the harbour at Rhodes, the Pyramids, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus at Cario, the temple of Diana at Ephesus, the Statue of Jupiter, and the great Pharos or lighthouse of Alexandria
On verso: text titled "Belchreibung Deb gantzen Erdreich"
Printed in cartouche in "America Septentrionalis": "America. Anno Domini 1492 a Crhstiophoro Columbo nomine Regis Castellae primum detecta, et ab Americo Vesputio nomen sortita 1499."
Printed in cartouche in lower left along bottom edge: "Cum ob terrestrem sphaeram hoc modo in planum redactam situm prope polos animadvertere non possimus, Borrealiorum et Australiorem paetem a quinquagesimo parallel duobus circulis hic delineates: conclusimus vale et fruere."
Printed in cartouche surrounded by cherubim along bottom edge: "Amstelodami Excudebat Ioannes Ianssonius.
Printed in upper left corner: "Anian Fetum et Fretum foannis."
Printed in lower left corner: "Hae regions cuidam Hispano apparuerunt, distectus - a classe in ho Australi vagaretur Oceanno."
Original in Joannes Janssonius: Novus atlas, sive theatrum orbis terrarum 1646-49, I, pt. 1, no. 1.

Custodial history:

Part of the Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection purchased by the Public Archives of Canada in 1981.

Citation/reference note:

Shirley, Entry 264 (4th state)., Phillips. Entry no. 459, Wagner, v.2, p.300 , Enrty 251

Availability of other formats note:

The microfiche version is NMC8249 (Text)

Related material:

For other copies and or editions see: Mikan 4140534 (NMC 8234) ; G1950 .P57 1680 .H3 1943 - fol. (AMICUS No. 17076317) ; H3/10000/1630 (and atlas copy)(NMC 27676)

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41 : Former container label was "10000 WORLD [1630-75]"

Subject heading:

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World - Maps - Early works to 1800

Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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80101/245 CA
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Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]
Original can be viewed in the presence of an early cartographic archivist.

Microfiche NMC8249

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R11981] 41

[Consultation 90 Open]

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