Dec 05, 2017 - Sale 2464

Sale 2464 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
BLAEU, JOAN; and VALCK, GERARD. Novus Planiglobii Terrestris Per Utrumque Polum Conspectus. Double-page engraved double-hemispheric world map on a polar perspective, showing California as an island. 20 3/4x25 inches sheet size, wide margins; original hand-color; faint mat stain; unusually, this sheet was never fully creased in the center for traditional binding, rather, stitch marks still appear at the left edge where it was once bound oblong into an atlas. Amsterdam, circa 1695

Additional Details

An uncommon projection, viewing the earth from both poles. The borders of the map are nicely decorated with celestial elements and depictions of Adam and Eve. The plate was prepared by Blaeu in 1672, but due to the fire at the family's warehouse that year and his death the following year, it apparently was never published. Valck acquired the plate in 1694, obscured Blaeu's name with his own, and put it into circulation shortly after. Shirley 459.