1677 Nicolas Visscher Antique Twin Hemisphere World Map Central America This fine hand coloured original

This fine hand coloured original antique map of Western Australia - only 4 years after the first British settlement on the Swan river & Van Diemens Land or Tasmania was engraved by J & C Walker

all the elements of the modern Atlas were brought to publication  in Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

Cochin China

was engraved by Antoine Maurin 1793 - 1860 and published in the 1836 1st edition of Dumont d Urvilles Voyage de la corvette L Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi

Walpole and Hunter) between 1793 and 1887

1677 Nicolas Visscher Antique Twin Hemisphere World Map Central America This fine hand coloured originalTitle : Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata Et In Lucem Edita Per N. Visscher Date : 1677 Size: 22in x 16in (560mm x 410mm) Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Ref: 30005 This beautiful, original map is the second state of the second world map prepared by Nicolas Visscher in 1677 for insertion in a Dutch Bible. The first state of this second world map was published in 1663. General Condition: Paper thickness and quality: Heavy & sturdy Paper color: off