Nova delineatio totius orbis terrarum
Bound sheet. Engr. Double hemisphere. Additional Places: world. Contents Note: A landmass labelled 'Terra Australis Incognita' is sketched further south than the then known parts of the Australian coast. California is shown as an island. The map is decorated with personifications of night and day and the four elements. Bound in Jacob Colom's 'Atlas of werelts-water-deel en des selfs zee-custen', 1663.
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Object Details
ID: | PBD8028(1) |
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Type: | Chart |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Colom, Jacob Aertsz; Colom, Arnold |
Places: | World |
Date made: | 1663 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Printed area 55.5 x 63cm, on sheet 57.5 x 65cm. |