Summary: | Corners are filled with native scenes, including animals, birds, boats and a representation of a penguin and of a penguin being hunted. Title in cartouche.; Hemispherical map, with notes, centred on the South Pole to the Tropic of Capricorn; includes southern parts of South America and South Africa and the west and south coasts of Australia. Relief and vegetation shown pictorially.; On verso: Der Polus Antarcticus gegen Mittag. Black type, 2 column text with ornate initial. Printed marginal headings.; At centre of map: Terra Australis Incognita.; Koeman, Me 122.; Tooley, 728.; Text on map is Latin, text on verso in German. Imprint: [Amstelodami] : Apud Ioannem Ianssonium, [Between 1641and 1650?]
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