1652 Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula

By: Claes Janszoon Visscher  Date: 1652 (published) Amsterdam Dimensions: 17.5 x 22 inches (44.5 x 55.9 cm) This is an authentic antique map of the world, by Claes Janszoon Visscher with contemporaneous coloring. The map was published out of Amsterdam in the year 1652. This later state of Visscher’s 2nd world map was prepared upon the Mercator projection. Interestingly, there are few maps to this point that employed the more useful projection introduced by Gerard Mercator in his great wall map of the world in 1569. This map adopts a style similar to those used by Blaeu and Jansson in their world maps throughout the first quarter of the 17th century. Visscher’s map features geographical updates such as the recently discovered Hudson Bay as well as a St. Lawrence River that completely lacks any sign of the great lakes. Instead the source of the river is shown to be a small lake nearly 3/4 the distance across the North American Continent. Other geographic features worth noting include ea