This is a map of Ethiopia as conceived in the 16th c. and associated with the Prester John legend probably resulting from the accounts of 16th c. Portuguese travellers. The position of the country is reasonably correct, but the detail...
Jodocus Hondius' wall-map of Europe 1595 : an introduction to the Nova totius Europae descriptio, auctore I. Hondio, deo propito Jodocus Hondius, una cu...
Similar to Chetwind's map (see NOR 0039). The ocean is decorated with ships, flying fish and sea monsters. Elephants, lions, ostriches, and giraffes are illustrated on the mainland. "The River Niger is erroneously mapped and there are...
TheSinarum Regni Aliorumque Regnorum et Insularum Illi Adiacentium Descriptio(Map of the Kingdom of China and Other Kingdoms and Islands Adjacent to It) is a hand-painted map. It is a Jesuit map, at least insofar as a Jesuit church in...
First appeared in Gerhard Mercator's atlas brought out by Jodocus Hondius beginning in 1606. This variant lacks text on verso. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with a view of a Florida Indian village on the left, and a Virginia Ind...
Liudmila Posokhova€s article deals with the phenomenon of the Orthodox colleges (pravoslavnye kollegiumy) of the eighteenth€"early nineteenth centurie...
Museum botanicum Lugduno-Batavum sive, Stirpium exoticarumnovarum vel minus cognitarum ex vivis aut siccis brevis expositio et descriptio. This book, "...
Coloured map.
Scale not given.
Latin text on the reverse (incomplete) differs from that of Atlas major pub. by his son Johan Blaeu in 1662. This map may be from an ed. of the Appendix theatri... first pub. in 1631, o...