Globe Terrestre Representé En Deux Plans-Hemispheres, Le

Subject

World, hemispheres, zodiac, Genesis, exploration, Northwest Passage, trade routes.

Date

1700

Mapmaker

Nolin, J[ean] B[aptiste]

Publisher

Nolin, Jean Baptiste

Place of Publication

Paris

Accession Number

1982.077.114

Alternate number

Seiferth Collection

Condition

Good.

Curatorial Notes

Map is framed. Map originally printed in seven sheets but joined together before Bocquet's coloring in 1700.

Exhibition History

1992 treasures exhibit, Presbytere, 1992-1999. Dec 1982-1984: map exhibition in Presbytere.

Market Value

1982 appraisal, $12,600,00

Notes

Delineates discoveries of early explorers (Pointy, Tasman, Magellan, Mendana, Chaumont, Le Maire, Olivier) and some claims to territory. Includes circle of the zodiac, compass roses. Surrounded by biblical images from Genesis. Delineates trading routes from Brest to the Dutch East Indies. New Guinea and Australia are depicted as a vast island. Hope for the discovery of a northwest passage in North America is delineated by the connection of a "Baye du Nord" in northern Canada with the Pacific Ocean by means of a long river.

Size

37 x 49

Storage

c02d04 (framed)