| Creator: |
Apian, Peter, 1495-1552. |
| Title: |
[Charta cosmographica, cum ventorum propria natura et operatione] [cartographic material]. |
| Scale: |
Scale not given.
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| Publisher: |
[Parisiis : vaeneunt apud Viuantium Gaultherot, via Iacobea : sub intersignio D. Martini, 1551] |
| Date: |
1551 |
| Material Type: |
Map |
| Physical Description: |
1 map : mounted on "new" rag paper and backed with linen; 19.0 x 27.7 cm. |
| Notes: |
Cordiform world map showing climatic zones - "zona frigida", "zona temperata", "clima septen." and "climaia Australia". Relief shown pictorially.
Title pencilled in upper margin of map.
Woodcut.
From: Cosmographia Petri Apiani, per Gemmam Frisium apud Louanienses medicum & mathematicum insigne ... Parisiis : vaeneunt apud Viuantium Gaultherot, via Iacobea : sub intersignio D. Martini, 1551.
Includes ill. of zodiac signs in a heart-shaped border surrounded by clouds and windheads including three cadaverous windheads representing the plague-carrying winds from the south and a deistic personage at head of map with the design of the Holy Roman Emperor's double eagle on his breastplate.
Shirley, 82; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm145 |
| Subjects: |
World -- 1550 -- Maps.
World maps -- Early works to 1800.
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| Call Number: | MAP RM 145 |
| To cite this item use: |
http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm145 |
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