Acquired From: Leen Helmink
Colouring: Coloured
Condition: Very Good
Confirmed: Yes
Date Acquired: 18/6/2014
Description: This double-hemisphere world map represents a later issue of the world map first published in 1650 (View Record (#25)) for inclusion in editions of the Dutch Statenbijbel. The present example corresponds to the 1657 issue, printed in Amsterdam by Paulus Aertsz van Ravesteyn. nThe Statenbijbel itself was first published in 1637, following a state-sponsored translation of the Bible directly from the original Hebrew and Greek texts. Van Ravesteyn's Amsterdam press held the privilege for printing the Statenbijbel throughout much of the mid-seventeenth century.nAs with the earlier issue (View Record (#25)) Simon Dewez regarded this map as a reworking of the 1614 world map by Claes Janszoon Visscher (View Record (#10), View Record (#11), View Record (#12), View Record (#292), View Record (#293)). A surviving copy of this map is preserved at the Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe. Faint traces of the original plate can still be discerned, including the lettering Terra del Fuego beneath South America and the coastline of Magellanica where it meets the southern coast of New Guinea.nThe map incorporates the results of Abel Tasmans first voyage (16421643), showing Tasmania as A. Van Diemens Landt, but omits the northern coastline of Australia charted during his second voyage in 1644, as well as New Zealand.nEarlier Dutch discoveries of Australia are shown, including Dirk Hartogs 1616 landfall, Willem de Houtman and Jacob dEdels 1619 voyage near present-day Perth, the charting of the southwestern coast by the Leeuwin in 1622, Jan Carstenszoons 1623 exploration of Cape York Peninsula, Pieter Nuytss southern coastal survey in 1627, and Gerrit Frederikszoon de Witts grounding in 1628. Willem Janszs 1606 landfall on Cape York Peninsula is not shown.nThe corners of the map feature personifications of the four continents. At the centre are two smaller hemispheres illustrating the Copernican and Ptolemaic cosmological systems. Two celestial hemispheres appear in the southeastern quadrant, while the southwestern quadrant contains an inscription recounting the voyages of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and the seven circumnavigators of the globe.
Engraver: Visscher I, Nicholaes (1618-1679)
First published: Biblia (Statenbijbel) Amsterdam: Paulus Aertsz van Ravesteyn, 1650
Mapmaker: Visscher I, Nicholaes (1618-1679)
Notes: Check date with ledger
Other states: Second edition 1660 includes the coastline of New Zealand
Price: 2,600
Primary Category: World
Purchase Reference: Ledger 2022
Shirley ID #: 401 Mapping the World
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: 1657
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