Visscher's south polar projection is starkly empty, apart from a portion of Patagonia and a full-coastlined Tierra del Fuego. The SouthThis is among the earliest world maps to dispense with the Terra Australis Incognita that dominated the south pole of earlier world maps, and which mariners consistently failed to discover. Visscher's map does include two subordinate polar projections based on those that appear on the wall map, however, which Blaeu did not reproduce on his atlas map. Franco Draco, which do not appear on the 1648 wall map. Thus, it is likely that Visscher's immediate source was Joan Blaeu's double hemisphere atlas map, and not the earlier wall map: this is supported by the presence on the Visscher map of the Californian place names of Nova Albion and Pt. Visscher's title appears to allude to that of Joan Blaeu's atlas map Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula, which almost certainly predated Visscher's, although Shirley dates the Blaeu at 1662, Van der Krogt places it in the first volume of Blaeu's Toonneel des Aerdrycks, which was printed ahead of the others in the atlas, as early as 1649. Sources and DatingVisscher's cartography represented the state of the art of Dutch mapmaking, as expressed in Joan Blaeu's 1648 double hemisphere wall map, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula. As such, according to Rodney Shirley, it is the 'master fore-runner' of the highly decorative style of Dutch world map that followed in the second half of the 17th century. It epitomizes, both aesthetically and geographically, the Dutch World map of the second part of the 17th century. This is Nicolas Visscher's classic 1658 double hemisphere map of the world, in beautiful original color. Minnesota - North Dakota - South Dakota.Massachusetts - Connecticut - Rhode Island.Some minor soiling in the image and in the blank margins. Minor tear in lower left margin, just entering printed image. Split and tear in upper margin, entering image, but well repaired on verso. An extraordinary discovery:unknown to bibliographers and collectors until discovery of the variant edition (this copy) in recent months. Because of the relatively scarity of this map and Blaeu's prominence as one of the most influential and decorative map makers of the Golden Age of Dutch Cartography, this map has become especially sought after by collectors and increasingly scarce on the market. The map depicts celestial figures seated among the clouds and representations of the four season below, with each figure seated in a chariot drawn by beasts and birds. The engraving, layout and elegance of decoration are all of the highest standard. This double hemisphere map was prepared at the end of the firm's publishing history and is much rarer than its predecessor. Unlike Blaeu's first world map which appeared in the majority of his atlases and was done on the Mercator projection, for this map Joannes Blaeu utilized a double hemisphere format and depicts California as an island. Moreover, a close comparison of the two maps shows many differences, too many to describe, but clearly the result of having been printed with two different plates, not simply revisions to the same plate. The 3 flying fish at the center of the map in the Atlantic are also missing in this version of the map. The ship below Australia is not present on this edition. The present example is readily distinguishable from the normal Joannes Blaeu World maps by the inclusion of 2 sailing ships off the west coast of South America and 1 ship off the southeastern coastline of South America. The map was also included in contemporary composite sea atlases of the period by Goos and others.
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