(WORLD.) Jean Boisseau. Nouvelle et Exacte Description de la Terre Universelle. Engraved decorative double-hemispheric world map with letterpress text panels pasted on. 15¼x40½ inches overall; attractively hand-colored with touches of gold and silver highlights; archivally lined on verso with thin tissue but no major flaws. Paris, 1636
Boisseau's desirable separately published map "follows the 1630 world map of Henricus Hondius but with quite different external decoration. Presumably to meet the more intellectual requirements of the French market, Boisseau has replaced the customary allegorical and classical scenes with more scientific features. There are two celestial spheres, textual panels of geographical and astronomical information, circular diagrams showing the compass points, the names of the winds and the heavenly orbits, and a thirty-year calendar starting in 1637" -- Shirley 340.
This example of the map is a unique presentation, further highlighted by the two additional panels of deeply descriptive text (bearing Boisseau's imprint) supplemented to the left and right margins.
