Additionally, an image at bottom-center depicts a crowned Europa receiving gifts from figures representing the New World, Africa, and Asia. Other details include a celestial globe at top-center (Hondius was in the globe business as well) and beautiful renditions of the four elements. The map is surrounded by an elaborate border with portraits at each corner depicting Julius Caesar, Claudius Ptolemy, Mercator and Jodocus Hondius (Henricus' father and founder of the House of Hondius). The area encompassed by Antarctica is labeled "Lis Incognita." Also depicted are English colonies labeled "Virginia," "Nova Anglia," and Nova Britannica." The colony of New Amsterdam, present-day New York, is labeled "Nova Belgium" on the map. Illustrations of the four elements of fire, air, water, and land are included. On the other hand, this was the first widely-distributed map to depict any part of Australia, which the Dutch had recently explored in part at the time of publication. Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula is a map of the world created by Hendrik Hondius in 1630, and published the following year at Amsterdam, in the atlas Atlantis Maioris Appendix. California is depicted as an island, a cartographic error that would persist on most maps until the mid-eighteenth century. This map represents the most up-to-date cartographic information of the time, though not all of that information would prove to be reliable. This amazing old map was one of the results. In response, Henricus partnered with cartographer Jan Janssonius to update the Atlas his father had released 30 years previously. Up to that point, the Hondius family had had the market cornered in atlases. Willem Blaeu had recently been working on an atlas, the first his house was to release. This beautiful and rare antique map dates to 1630 and represents an attempt by Henricus Hondius to catch up with his map-making nemesis. The rivalry between these map-making families spanned generations and involved business practices that would undoubtedly violate modern copyright laws. In the early seventeenth century, the two top contenders in this race were the houses of Hondius and Blaeu. But instead of being first to set foot on a distant heavenly body, they were racing to map the one we live on. More than 300 years before the space race, European map-makers were engaged in another contest of exploration. Nova Totivs Terrarvm Orbis Geographica Tabvla Gold Foiled World Map Framed. Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving.Title: Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.
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