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Creator: Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673.
Title: Nova et accvratissima totivs terrarvm orbis tabvla [cartographic material] / Auctore Ioanne Blaev.
Scale: Scale [ca. 1:95 000 000].
Publisher: [Amsterdam : Blaeu, 1664]
Date: 1664
Material Type: Map
Physical Description: 1 map : col. ; 2 hemispheres each 26.7 cm. in diam. on sheet 49.1 x 63.3 cm.
Notes: Decorative background with figures in carts, symbolising the four seasons, drawn by birds and beasts.

Double hemispherical map of the world. Relief shown pictorially. California shown as an island. Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand incomplete. Title in decorative cartouche.

Map 1 from : Atlas maior, sive cosmographia blaviana, qua solvm, salvm, coelvm, accvratissime desiribvntvr. Vol. I. --- Nordenskiold.

On verso : Des geheelen Aerdtrycks beschryving.[p] I. Decorated initial, double-column text with printed marginal headings. Running title : Des Geheelen.

Signature : A.

Rex Nan Kivell Collection Map NK 1577.
Subjects: World maps -- Early works to 1800.
World -- 1648.
Call Number: MAP NK 1577
Amicus Number: 7751414
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nk1577