Allegorical vignettes of the four seasons., Double hemisphere, with smaller polar insets., Label on verso with manuscript number "101/61." Manuscript notes on verso: A.K. 481; no. 3; de Wit, 1660 [crossed out] 1677. Cross collection no. 26., Relief shown pictorially., Shows California as an island., and State 2, in which cherubs were placed in the cusps and a border added; see Rodney Shirley, Mapping of the world, entry 451.
Allegorical vignettes of the four seasons., Double hemisphere, with smaller polar insets., Imperfect: chipped and mutilated along edges and fold, with some loss of text. Backed with paper., Relief shown pictorially., Shows California as an island., and State 2, in which cherubs were placed in the cusps and a border added; see Rodney Shirley, Mapping of the world, entry 451.
"DK," the initials of woodcutter David Kandel, appear in lower left-hand corner., Imperfect: torn along center fold, with some loss of text. Cross collection no. 5., and Map depicts the continents of Africa, Asia, Europe ("Europa"), and the New World, the coat of arms of Castile and León, sailing vessels, sea monsters, and twelve wind heads.
[Page] 198; includes text., Appears in Porcacchi's L'isole piv famose del mondo, 1572 or later edition., Relief shown pictorially., Text on verso, [page] 197, with signature R 3., and Title from upper case text printed above map.
"Quid ei potest videri magnum in rebus humanis, cui aeternitas omnis, totiusque mundi nota sit magnitudo. Cicero"., Cross collection no. 7. Label on verso with manuscript number "101/58.", From Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum., German text on verso, with caption title "Die gantsche Welt" and signature l., and Relief shown pictorially.
Publisher:
[Abraham Ortelius],
Subject (Name):
Hogenberg, Frans, approximately 1539-1590, engraver. and Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. Theatrum orbis terrarum.
From Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum., Illustrations of clouds in the four corners., Imperfect: wormed, with some loss of text. Cross collection no. 11. Label on verso with manuscript number "111/1.", and Latin text on verso, with caption title "America, sive novvs orbis 2," catchword "More," and signature A2.
Publisher:
[Abraham Ortelius],
Subject (Name):
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. Theatrum orbis terrarum.
Imperfect: lower right corner mutilated, with some loss of text; worm holes, with some loss of text. Cross collection no. 12., Includes text, ill., and decorative border., Relief shown pictorially., Signature mark: j., and Text on verso: Die erste Landtafel ...
Imperfect: torn along middle fold, with some loss of text. Cross collection no. 3., Includes text, ill., and decorative border., Relief shown pictorially., Signature mark: j., and Text on verso: Die erste Landtafel ...
Imperfect: two small holes at upper right corner where oxidized by pigment. Label on verso with manuscript number "550/149." Cross collection no. 6. Mounted on paper., In Latin on verso with caption title "Itinerarivm B. Pavli.", and In top right margin: 675.
"Are to be sold in Pops- head Alle by Geor. Humble"., Cross collection no. 15., Double hemisphere, with smaller celestial hemispheres and astronomical diagram., From: A prospect of the most famous parts of the world... London...1627., Shows California as an island., and Text on verso: "The generall description of the world".
Publisher:
George Humble,
Subject (Name):
Humble, George, -1640. and Speed, John, 1552?-1629. Prospect of the most famous parts of the world.
