"Universi Orbis Descriptio", Magini, Giovanni Antonio
Subject: World
Period: 1596 (published)
Publication: Geographiae Universae tum Veteris...
Color: Black & White
Size:
7.1 x 5.3 inches
18 x 13.5 cm
Girolamo Porro originally engraved this map for Giovanni Magini's quarto edition of Ptolemy's Geographia in 1596. It is based on Abraham Ortelius' world map on an oval projection. The most notable features are the large landmasses at both poles. Six wind-heads are arranged above and below the map. The map was very popular and subsequently appeared in Lasor a Varea's work more than a century after it was first engraved.
References: Mickwitz & Miekkavaara #223-29; Shirley #195.
Condition: B+
On watermarked paper with light foxing and a few short printer's creases.
