Double Hemisphere World Map

Double Hemisphere World Map. Rare Original Double Hemisphere World Map with Allegorical Figures A double-hemisphere world map after the great French cartographer Guillaume de L'Isle, with four inset maps in the corners — two polar maps and two showing views of the world centered on Paris and its antipodes — and an elaborate cartouche at the top decorated with figures representing four continents 1630-1650 Double hemisphere world map by Jodocus Hondius, published by Melchior Tavernier

[Item number: 30840] €15000 ($15750 / £12450) Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio This fascinating map has been a little under-described by the most famous of all world map carto-bibliographies

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It is an enlarged, richly decorative depiction of the world according to Nicolas Sanson, the great French geographical authority of the 17th century. Continents geographycal hires.jpg 4,000 × 4,000; 956 KB. Canvases are stretched on 1 1/2 inch deep stretcher bars (gallery wrapped) and hand painted dark brown

Rare Original Double Hemisphere World Map with Allegorical Figures. 1630-1650 Double hemisphere world map by Jodocus Hondius, published by Melchior Tavernier [Item number: 28768] €11000 ($11550 / £9130) Luxury colouring

Old Double Hemisphere World Map, 1804 by Arrowsmith Rare 19th Centur. It epitomizes, both aesthetically and geographically, the Dutch World map of the second part of the 17th century [Item number: 30840] €15000 ($15750 / £12450) Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio