This uncommon, small double-hemisphere world map was published in the only Latin edition of Plantin's emblem book celebrating the centenary of the Jesuit Order. The Americas appear in an odd configuration, with California shown as an unnamed island below an expansive northwest coast that stretches off the edge of the map. The present-day United States and Canada are simply labeled Nova Francia. There is a protruding peninsula in South America, perhaps the Yucatan Peninsula located too far to the south. The coast of a vast, unknown southern continent is delineated in the Eastern Hemisphere. The map is surrounded by an ornate strapwork border featuring a windhead and a scallop shell. On verso is another emblem with a candle.

See also lot 714 for Rodney Shirley's The Mapping of the World - Early Printed World Maps 1472-1700 that describes this map.

References: King (3rd ed.) #1640; Shirley #352.

Condition: B+

A crisp impression with minor light burn and a few small spots of foxing and a rust spot in the western hemisphere. The text above and below the engraving has been trimmed off the sheet.