MAP]. SPEED, John (1552-1629). "A New and Accurat Map of the World." [London:] Theodor Bassett, dated 1651 [1676]. Engraved map, single sheet (429 x 525 mm). (Very minor chipping to edges, light darkening.) Matted and framed. Twin-hemisphere map of the world, state 4, decorative borders incorporating polar celestial hemispheres, medallion portraits of the first four circumnavigators (Magellan, Drake, Cavendish and Van Noort), allegorical figures of the four elements, and diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses. The engraver may have been Abraham Goos, who engraved other maps in the Prospect. The map is principally based on William Grent's world map of the previous year and on Jodocus Hondius's world map of 1617, and was first published in Speed's Prospect of the most famous Parts of the World in 1627. Shirley 317; see Tooley, "California as an island", in The Mapping of America 2.
MAP]. SPEED, John (1552-1629). "A New and Accurat Map of the World." [London:] Theodor Bassett, dated 1651 [1676]. Engraved map, single sheet (429 x 525 mm). (Very minor chipping to edges, light darkening.) Matted and framed. Twin-hemisphere map of the world, state 4, decorative borders incorporating polar celestial hemispheres, medallion portraits of the first four circumnavigators (Magellan, Drake, Cavendish and Van Noort), allegorical figures of the four elements, and diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses. The engraver may have been Abraham Goos, who engraved other maps in the Prospect. The map is principally based on William Grent's world map of the previous year and on Jodocus Hondius's world map of 1617, and was first published in Speed's Prospect of the most famous Parts of the World in 1627. Shirley 317; see Tooley, "California as an island", in The Mapping of America 2.
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