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Plancius Map
- Subject: Plancius Map
- From: Barry Ruderman <blr@raremaps.com>
- Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 08:57:45 -0700
We have recently acquired Plancius' 1594 World Map and offer it here
first to maptrade subscribers. Pictures are available on request
( email charcee@raremaps.com ).
Orbis
Terrarvm Typvs De Integro Multis in Locis Emmendatus ...
Plancius, 1594 16? x 23?. Full color. Usual restorations to old
folds. Archivally backed. A decorative example.
This 1594
Plancius world map, engraved by the Dutch master Jan van Doetecum, holds
the distinction of being the very first world map to use a style of
richly decorated border that would dominate world maps for decades to
come. ?The elaborate pictorial borders were inspired by drawings in
the works of Theodore de Bry published a few years earlier and
established a pattern of cartographical decoration that lasted over a
century? - Shirley. The map also has great importance geographically,
particularly in the mapping of the Arctic and the Far East. The map
contains a marvelous attempt at a North-West Passage, and Plancius
himself instigated the three voyages of Willem Barents (1594-1597)
into the area. He used this map to give cartographic encouragement to the
Dutch crews by turning Novaya Zemlya into an island with open sea between
it and the Arctic. A sprinkling of English names in the Canadian Arctic
appear as a result of Frobisher and Davis?s explorations in search of the
passage in 1576-1587. The map is also a landmark in the mapping of Asia
and Japan. According to Lutz Walter, ?Plancius was one of the few north
Europeans able to penetrate the wall of secrecy that surrounded
manuscript portolan maps produced by Iberian powers.? Some of the most
significant improvements include the first incorporation of Teixiera?s
outline for Japan, which was made famous by Ortelius?s separate map
published the following year, and the first appearance of Korea. New
Guinea has been joined to the southern continent and the fictitious Java
Minor disappears. Shirley, The Mapping of The World, #187.
Price: $14,500.00
Barry Lawrence
Ruderman 1298
Prospect, Suite 2C
Antique Maps
Inc.
La Jolla, CA
92037
blr@raremaps.com
Phone: (858) 551-8500
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