1800’s Copy Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula Amsterdam 1658 Visscher. PLEASE LOOK AT MY OTHER MAP LISTINGS.

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Measurements: 15 1/2”H x 18 3/8”W.

Condition: Amazing condition considering its age of the 1800’s. (not a vintage print). Please Examine Photos Carefully for condition.

As a variation to earlier double hemisphere world maps, Visscher, a mid-17th-century Dutch cartographer, added two smaller spheres to his presentation, with each depicting the northern and southern polar regions. His map, also ornately decorated, first appeared in Jan Jansson's 1658 ''Novus Atlas''. The map was reused, unchanged, in later atlases compiled by the Visscher family and in composite atlases. Visscher's world map influenced other late 17th-century Dutch cartographers in the production of highly decorative world maps. The map's uniqueness and distinct attraction is its marginal decorations which were the work of artist Nicolaes Berchem. The artist created four dramatic scenes from classical mythology--the rape of Persephone amidst a flaming background, Zeus as he was carried across the heavens in an eagle-drawn chariot, Poseidon and his entourage emerging from the sea, and Demeter receiving the fruits of the land. These vignettes are also suggestive of the four basic elements. Geographically, the information presented on this map did not differ significantly from earlier Dutch maps. It continued the practice of showing California as an island, an interpretation that first appeared on English maps in the mid-1620s, and was quickly adopted by Dutch cartographers in the 1630s.

COPY of a decorative full color example of Nicholas Visscher's highly influential double hemisphere map of the World map, first published in 1658.

As noted by Rodney Shirley:

Visscher's new worldmap in two hemispheres can be regarded as the master forerunner of a number of highly decorative Dutch world maps produced throughout the remainder of the century. Essentially based upon Blaeu's [wall map of the World] of 1648 . . . the distinct attractiveness of many of the later seventeenth century Dutch world maps can be found in their border decorations . . . [in Visscher's map], artist Nicolaes Berchem has introduced dramatic classical scenes representing the rape of Perephone, Zeus being carried across the heavens in an eagle-drawn chariot, Poseidon commanding his entourage, and Demeter receiving the fruits of the Earth.

Visscher's map also includes a set of smaller polar hemispheric projections at the top and bottom of the map. Visscher's world map would become the proto-type for not only a generation of large format Dutch World maps, it also inspired a series of reduced sized biblical world maps by Stoopendahl and others.

This map portrays the world as it was known in the late seventeenth century, presented in the form of large eastern and western hemispheres, with smaller northern and southern polar projections. There are several omissions, ambiguities, and misconceptions, including tentative and fragmentary renditions of Australia and New Zealand, and erroneous delineation of the west coast and interior of North America. The prevalent misconception of California as an island is seen, and there is no hint of Alaska or the Great Lakes.

Surrounding the geographic images are beautiful allegorical representations of the four classical Greek elements. Fire is represented at the upper left by Pluto abducting Persephone to the underworld (Hades). At the upper right, Air is represented by Zeus and Hera being carried across the heavens in a chariot drawn by eagles. At the lower right, Earth is represented by the harvest goddess, Demeter. Water is represented at the lower left by Poseidon, god of the sea.

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