VALCK, Gerard Mappe-monde geo-hydrographique,... Lot 581

VALCK, Gerard Mappe-monde geo-hydrographique, ou Description générale du globe terrestre et aquatique en deux plans hemisphères ou sont exactement remarquées en général toutes les parties de la terre et de l'eau, suivant les relations les plus nouvelles. Amsterdam G. Valck ca. 1686 Engr., 50 x 58,5 cm, old hand-coloured (2 sm. stains in the title, centr. folding). Framed (not studied outside frame). Valck's double hemisphere world map was copied after Jaillot's influential world map of 1674 to which he added 4 allegorical vignettes depicting the 4 seasons and 2 polar projection maps. Very decorative world map, presumably published separately, showing California as an island and the Great Lakes. Ref. Shirley 531.