STOOPENDAAL, D. Lot n° 22

Orbis Terrarum Tabula. Amsterdam, 1714. Col. - In good condition. With recent colours. 355 x 460 mm. (R) Beautiful double hemisphere from a Dutch Bible. Surrounded by allegorical representations of the continents, based on Visscher. CALIFORNIA IS AN ISLAND with a flat northern coastline, Australia is partially mapped and there is only a hint of New Zealand. The northwest American and east Asian coastlines are incomplete. Diagrams of the Copernican and Ptolemaic solar systems rest between the hemispheres. - Shirley, world, 498.