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Auction 124, Lot 24

"Werelt Caert", Stoopendaal, Daniel

Subject: World

Period: 1736 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
18 x 12.2 inches
45.7 x 31 cm
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This is the second state of Stoopendaal's double hemisphere map from a Dutch Bible based on Visscher's similar map of 1663 and surrounded by allegorical representations of the continents. It has been updated here to show California as an island with a flat northern coastline, Australia's western and northern coastlines, a revision in the coastline for New Guinea, and the addition of some islands in the South Pacific. Diagrams of the Copernican and Ptolemaic solar systems rest between the hemispheres. This is the smaller version of this world map, without the banner title. Dutch text on verso

References: cf Shirley #498.

Condition: A

A nice bright example on a sound sheet with the centerfold professionally reinforced on the verso. A later impression, but still clear.

Estimate: $1,300 - $1,600

Sold for: $950

Closed on 5/7/2008

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