Terrestrial table globe. Geographical details on the sphere are the same as Hondius GLB0129. There are loxodromes for 32 compass points and there is a label for the Strait of Magellan, 'Fretum Magellanicum'. The Strait of Ie Maire is still absent. There is a hypothetical southern continent, which is labelled 'TERRA AUSTRALIS INCOGNITA'. There are notes on four unexplored regions, for example, in Asia, a comment on New Guinea and one in South America. There are notes on discoveries around the North Pole: 'Nova Zembla detecta 1596', and in North America: 'AMERICA SEPTENTRIONALIS a Christophoro Columb. 1492 detecta'.

Decorations on the globe include many ships and a few monsters in the oceans. A total of 11 oceans are named. A set of gores of this Hondius/de Rossi globe is conserved in the Library of Congress, Washington. For full details about the cartography and construction of this globe please refer to the related publication.