"Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio", Lasor a Varea, Alphonsus

A finely engraved double hemisphere map based on Rumold Mercator's great map of 1587. It includes a large southern continent, no Korean peninsula, the "kite" shaped Japan, and several mythical islands in the North Atlantic. The engraving is in the Italian style with a stipple-engraved sea and simple border. Giuseppe Rosaccio originally engraved this map for his edition of Ptolemy's Geographia in 1598. The map was very popular and subsequently appeared in Lasor a Varea's work more than a century after it was first engraved.

References: cf. Shirley #217.

Condition: A

A clean and bright example with some minor creasing confined to the blank margins.