orbis terrarum descriptio duobis planis hemisphaeriis

This website is developed as a part of the world's largest public domain archive, PICRYL. The cartography follows the work of Willem Blaeus wall map, except for North America.

The cartographic detail is based upon Van Geelckerkens map of 1610, with dramatic additional decorative embellishment. law and are therefore in the public domain. Extremely rare decorative double hemisphere map of the World by Nicholas Van Geelkercken, first published in 1610. The Library provides Congress, the federal government and the American people with a rich, diverse and enduring source of knowledge to inform, inspire and engage them and support their intellectual and creative endeavors.ĭisclaimer: A work of the Library of Congress is 'a work prepared by an officer or employee' of the federal government 'as part of that person's official duties.' In general, under section 105 of the Copyright Act, such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. The defects are reflected in the price.The objects in this archive are from Library of Congress - the nation’s first established cultural institution and the largest library in the world, with millions of items including books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. Please see the verso image to clearly assess the extent of the work. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books. Remargined on the right side and bottom, with lost image on the lower left and right sides reinstated to a very high standard. Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Hondius re-issued the map with some significant decorative changes in 1639 and later editions with significant changes have been noted by Muller in an 1872 catalogue, describing a copy of the 1657 edition of Jansson's Waterwereldt, and an even later example (dated 1676) was identified by Lasor a Varea in a reference work published in 1713.Ĭondition: The map has had significant facsimile work performed by a specialist who works for the British Museum. File: Jan Janssonius, Orbis Terrarum Descriptio duobis planis hemisphaeriis comprehesa 02 (FL169789342 0916587).jpg. The 1632 edition is also an exceptional rarity, with only 2 examples having been noted in dealer catalogues in the past 30 years and none since 1989. Shirley noted only 2 examples of the first state and 4 or 5 examples of this second state (1618).

Some of the human details, milkmaids, reapers, skaters - are particularly lively. In the corners there are rural scenes illustrating the four seasons, and, in the upper and lower center parts, panoramas of the Garden of Eden and the last Judgement. However, the rich external decoration is quite new. apart from a redrawn north-east coast of Asia and the omisssion of the lake in North America. This file of Map of Jerusalem was donated to Wikimedia Commons by the National Library of Israelas part of a collaboration project with Wikimedia Israel. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. The signatures on this vividly decorative map indicate the author as Nicolaes Geelkercken and the publisher as Jan Jansson. Geographically, the map is little different from Geelkercken's. Download Image of Descriptio seu ichnographia veteris urbis Hierusalem et locorum adjacentium. The map is rare: Shirley concluded that it was first published in 1616, however no example is known to have survived with this date and only 2 known examples of the 1617 edition have survived.

Van Geelkercken's map was published shortly after Spilbergen's passage around the strait of Magellan (January 1616), although the year is incorrectly noted as 1615. The cartography follows the work of Willem Blaeu's wall map, except for changes to North America. The cartographic detail is based upon Van Geelckerken's map of 1610, with dramatic additional embellishment. Nicolas Van Geelkercken was active as draughtsman and engraver, working in Leiden, Amsterdam and Antwerp. Title: ' Orbis Terraum Descriptio Duobis Planis Hemisphaeriis Comprehesa - Nic Geilekerck fecit - Excudebat Joannes Janssonius A° 1618 - Nicolaas van Geelkercken, 1618, second state.Īn extremely rare highly decorative double hemisphere map of the World by Nicholas Van Geelkercken, first published in 1610.

Orbis terrarum descriptio duobis planis hemisphaeriis