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Creator: Apian, Peter, 1495-1552.
Title: [Charta cosmographica, cum ventorum propria natura et operatione] [cartographic material].
Scale: Scale not given.
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.
Call Number: MAP RM 145
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm145