79/5320 [Worldmaps]. "Orbis Terrarum Nova Et Accuratissima Tabula". Engr. map w. 2 handcol. hemispheres and 2 handcol. polar hemispheres, rich (uncol.) pictorial borders by J. DE VISSCHER after N. BERCHEM, 47x56 cm., Amst., N. Visscher, 1685 (or later), framed.

- A few sm. (closed) tears touching the edges of the image; sl. foxed; a few tiny superficial spots nibbled by silverfish. Still an attractive copy. Not examined outside frame.

= Hollstein (Johannes Visscher) 24 (for the borders); Shirley 406: "Nicolaas Visscher's new world map in two hemispheres can be regarded as the master forerunner of a number of highly decorative Dutch world maps produced throughout the remainder of the century. (...) The distinctive attractiveness of the later seventeenth cent. world maps is to be found in their border decorations and Visscher's is no exception. His artist Nicolaes Berchem has introduced dramatical classical scenes representing the rape of Persephone, Zeus being carried across the heavens in an eagle-drawn chariot, Poseidon commanding his entourage, and Demeter receiving the fruits of the Earth. (...) Visscher's map is to be found in several different atlases. It appears in Jansson's Novus Atlas of 1658 in both the Latin- and German-text versions and was later used, in unchanged state, in later atlases compiled by the Visscher family (...)." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCV.