HONDIUS HENRICUS Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac H

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HONDIUS, HENRICUS. Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula. Double-page engraved world map. 470x580 mm, margins ample at left and right, wide at top and bottom, German text on verso; later hand-color; reinforcements to cetnral vertical fold, bottom left and right corners dampstained, barely proceeding into image. Shirley 336. [Amsterdam], 1630 [but 1633]

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This ornate world map by Hondius and Jansson shows California as an island, and is celebrated for its highly decorative border representing the four elements and depicting images of Caesar, Ptolemy, Jodocus Hondius and Mercator in the corners. The map was issued in every Mercator-Hondius atlas from 1633-58.