[Charta cosmographica, cum ventorum propria natura et operatione] [cartographic material]
- Bib ID:
- 3356736
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Apian, Peter, 1495-1552
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale not given (E 90°00'00"--E 151°00'00"/N 90°00"--S 90°00'00").
- Description:
-
- [Parisiis : vaeneunt apud Viuantium Gaultherot, via Iacobea : sub intersignio D. Martini, 1551]
- 1 map : mounted on "new" rag paper and backed with linen; 19.0 x 27.7 cm.
- Notes:
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- Cordiform world map showing climatic zones - "zona frigida", "zona temperata", "clima septen." and "climaia Australia". Relief shown pictorially.
- Title pencilled in upper margin of map.
- Woodcut.
- From: Cosmographia Petri Apiani, per Gemmam Frisium apud Louanienses medicum & mathematicum insigne ... Parisiis : vaeneunt apud Viuantium Gaultherot, via Iacobea : sub intersignio D. Martini, 1551.
- Includes ill. of zodiac signs in a heart-shaped border surrounded by clouds and windheads including three cadaverous windheads representing the plague-carrying winds from the south and a deistic personage at head of map with the design of the Holy Roman Emperor's double eagle on his breastplate.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231198073
- In Latin. French text on verso.
- Cited In:
- Shirley, 82
- Subject:
- World maps -- Early works to 1800
- Time Coverage:
- 1550
- Other authors/contributors:
- Apian, Peter, 1495-1552. Cosmographia Petri Apiani
- Copyright:
-
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1552
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1551
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