Decorated with sea monsters, mermaids, exotic animals, and cannibals, this wood cut map provides a marked contrast to the simplistic diagrams considered the earliest printed world maps. While the latter presented a world view based in Judeo-Christian theo
Alternative Title:
Typus cosmographicus universalis and Typvs cosmographicvs vniversalis
Description:
Appears in Johann Huttich's Novus orbis regionum. Basel. 1532. and Relief shown pictorially.
Publisher:
[publisher not identified],
Subject (Name):
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543 and Huttich, Johann, 1480?-1544. Novus orbis regionum.
"Photolithographed copy of Gerard Mercator's Mapamundi of 1538 from an original engraving in the library of the American Geographical Society.", Relief shown pictorially., and Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
Julius Bien & Co., photo-lith,
Subject (Geographic):
World--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
American Geographical Society of New York and Julius Bien & Co
Subject (Topic):
Early maps, Early maps--Facsimiles, World maps, and World maps--Early works to 1800