Copperplate engraved. L.C. 469, 4274; Koeman IV,Cel 1(5), Cel 2, Cel 3; Snyder p.68 (PLATE 32); UCBm; The cartography of North America (page 133). Shows the Copernican system of 4 hemisphere views and paths of the planets, within a ring of the zodiac. California as an island with rounded northern coastline on the hemispheres. Title divided between 2 cartouches of winged figures holding draped cloth (top left and right). Blind-folded royal figure seated at globe of Ptolemaic constellations (bottom left). Another figure studying a book (bottom right). '5' (bottom right). Issued in: Atlas coelestis; seu harmonia macrocosmica (Celestial atlas of universal harmony). -- Amstelodami : apud Joannem Janssonium, 1660, 1661. Published by Gerardum Valk & Petrum Schenk, 1708. [Andreas Cellarius].
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