COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657
Author:
Hondius, Jodocus
Date:
1642
Short Title:
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula
Publisher:
Chez Pierre Mariette
Publisher Location:
Paris
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
38
Obj Width cm:
55
Note:
Double hemisphere hand colored map of the world, by Pierre Mariette, based upon the earlier map of Hondius from 1617. Embelished with allegorical spandrel vigenttes representing celestial hemispheres, north and south poles, sailing ships and sea monsters. Shows North America extending to Japan, course of the St. Laurence River ends in the American Southwest, Japan shown as a oddly shaped island, also shows Great wall of China. Map includes detail notations from Marco Polo, most notably the place name Beach in Terra Australis Incognita. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text.
World Area:
World
Subject:
Celestial
Full Title:
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula. Auct: Iud. Hondio. De impression de Mariette ... 1642. (to accompany: Theatre geographique de France ... A Paris, Chez Pierre Mariette, M.DC. LIII (1653)).
List No:
13021.004
Page No:
1
Series No:
4
Publication Author:
Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657
Pub Date:
1650
Pub Title:
(Theatre geographique de France, contenant les cartes particulieres de ses provinces. Et celles de ses frontieres & pays adjacens. Le tout selon la table contenue au feuillet suivant. A Paris, Chez Pierre Mariette, M.DC. LIII (1653)).
Pub Note:
Geographical theater of France, containing the maps of its provinces. And those of its borders & adjacent countries. Published in Paris by Pierre Mariette, 1650. Atlas has no title page and index (but supplied in facsimile of the 1653 edition), title provided by cataloger based on Mireille Pastoureau," The French Atlas (16th-17th centuries): Bibliographic Directory and Study ", Paris, 1984. The "Geographic Theater" of Mariette succeeds that of Tavernier of 106 plates, but it offers 60 maps, dated 1627-1646, edited by Pierre-Jean Mariette and engraved by Michel van Lochom, Melchior Tauernier and Abraham Peyrounin, Abraham. This atlas copy composed of 57 maps, lacks maps 41 "Carte de Provence", 42 "Description des Isles de Ste. Margrite & St. Honorat" and 54 "Carte la Savoye". For map 42 see Record #12100.041.
Pub List No:
13021.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
60
Pub Height cm:
41
Pub Width cm:
30
Image No:
13021004.jp2
Authors:
Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657; Hondius, Jodocus
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