| Summary: | "Are to be sold in pops head Alle [Pope's Head Alley by Geor. Humble."; Double hemispherical map of the world, with 2 insets and 4 portrait miniatures of circumnavigators: Drake, Magellan, Candish and Van der Noort. California shown as an island comments on map in separate cartouches, Antarctica named Magellanica.; From: Prospect of the world ./John Speed, London, 1627. Pl. 1.; Text on verso. Initial with person in design. Running title: "The general description of the world." Decorative border at head.; Two celestial spheres plan of the heavens and elements with the earth at the centre diagrams of eclipses allegorical figures of 4 elements.; Phillips 442.; Shirley 317.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nk1530; Rex Nan Kivell Collection Map NK 1530.
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