At page top, above map: DE LA SPHERE. [Page] 15[,] FIGURE VI. [Page] 15 (map top right). Issued in his: Description de L’Univers, Tome I. -- Paris, 1683. Subsequent edition in 1688. With German inscription on the plate. Issued in his German editions: Beschreibung des ganzen Welt-kreisses ..., I, Franckfurt, 1684 and Description de L’Univers ..., Francfourt sur le Main, Chez Jean David Zunner, 1686. With the entire plate as a mirror image, including the unrolled map. Der Mittel Kreiss. (page top, above map). Fig. 6. (map top right). Issued in his German edition: Beschreibung des gantzen weltkreises ..., J.A. Jung ... Franckfurt am Mayn, 1719. LC 3447, 4280; BN Manesson-Mallet I A & I B; Shirley 518; Sabin 44130. Small unrolled double hemisphere map draped over a table and two globes. California as an island with a rounded northern coast. Map entitled, “Carte Generale Dv Monde.”
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