COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Elwe, Jan Barend
Date:
1792
Short Title:
Planisphere representant toute l'etendue du monde dans l'ordre qu'on a suivi dans ce livre.
Publisher:
Elwe, Jan Barend
Publisher Location:
Amsterdam
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
43
Obj Width cm:
27
Scale 1:
90,000,000
Note:
World map, in circular format with the North Pole at the center. Title translates to: Planisphere representing the entire expanse of the world in the order we have followed in this book. Shows continents, countries, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines. Map sits of the shoulders of Atlas, who appears within his own scenery. Hand-colored engraving. Map is 43 x 27 cm, on sheet 58 x 34 cm.
World Area:
World
Full Title:
Planisphere representant toute l'etendue du monde dans l'ordre qu'on a suivi dans ce livre.
List No:
14478.015
Page No:
2
Series No:
15
Publication Author:
Elwe, Jan Barend
Pub Date:
1792
Pub Title:
Atlas der wereld. Amstelædami, Chés J. B. Elwe.
Pub Note:
Atlas der wereld, by Jan Barend Elwe; published in Amsterdam, 1792. Title translates to: Atlas of the world. Bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled paper boards. With gilt ornamentation and title on spine. Collation - Folio: 22 pages, 40 leaves of plates. Comprised of letterpress text, an engraved title page, 37 maps, one timeline and one table of distances for Europe. Geographic coverage includes Europe, Russia, the Middle East, the Holy Land, East and Southeast Asia, Africa, North America and South America. Maps show continents, countries, regions, cities, churches, railways, topography, deserts, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines, islands and routes of exploration. With pictorial vignettes of figures, fauna and flora. This historical atlas in which Elwe re-issued maps by De L’Isle, Ottens, Jaillot, and other 17th-century cartographers continued the 17th-century Franco-Dutch mapmaking tradition long after it had been eclipsed by the 18th-century English mapmakers. The work is an intriguing bookend on a cartographic tradition - “the golden age of cartography” - that shaped much of the modern world.
Pub List No:
14478.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
37
Pub Height cm:
59
Pub Width cm:
36
Image No:
14478015.jp2
Authors:
Elwe, Jan Barend
