5460 - 5622 FINE ARTS - FOREIGN TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
81/5620 Worldmaps Novissima totius terrarum orbis tabula 
- Some restorations to outer blank margins and along middle fold; nevertheless fine.
= Shirley 486. This rare and highly sought after decorative map features i.a. California as an island. The map is geographically based on the elder Visscher's map of 1658. The exact date of its first appearance is uncertain. But according to Shirley it was probably produced by Nicolas Visscher II after his father's death in 1679. This is the second state with "cum Privilegio Ordin: General: Belgii Foederati" printed below the title, probably from Van Keulen's 1695 atlas. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.
81/5621 Worldmaps Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata Et In Lucem Edita 
- A few sm. tears in outer blank margins; neatly restored along middle fold at foot of fold; nevertheless an attractive map.
= Shirley 513: "[The Keur family's] folio bible of 1682 has a finely executed general map in two hemispheres with the same corner decorations as in the Visscher-Berchem map of 1658 (...). Instead of the north and south polar circles there are astronomical diagrams (...)." The diagrams are still captioned "Polus A(nta)rcticus". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.
81/5622 Worldmaps Planisphaerium Terrestre cum utroque Coelesti Hemisphaerio Vlakke Aard kloot met het beide Hemelsch half rond 
- Neatly backed w. laid paper; middle fold flattened; trifle spotted.
= Shirley 639: "The two main hemispheres are cartographically up-to-date and show the routes of explorers, including Magellan, Dampier, Tasman, Gaetani and Chaumont. Nova Britannia, an island separately adjacent from New Guinea, is shown with an inscription saying that it was discovered by Dampier in 1700. Encircling the hemispheres are markings of the winds and climates, and set around the border are no less than twenty-six smaller astronomical diagrams and hemispheres of the world according to different projections. In addition there are two larger celestial hemispheres and, at the bottom, a panorama illustrating tempests, earthquakes, tides, vortices, etc. Below there is textual commentary on the natural phenomena depicted." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.