ORONCE FINE. Nova, Et Integra Universi Orbis Descriptio. Paris, 1541. Medici ink blotters

ink blotters

the most notable being held by the British Museum and the Oak Spring Library

Degrees of Latitude: Mapping Colonial America (Williamsburg

1812-1888)

published in 1698

ORONCE FINE. Nova, Et Integra Universi Orbis Descriptio. Paris, 1541. Medici ink blottersOronce FINE (1494 1555) Nova, et Integra Universi Orbis Descriptio Paris: Christianus Wechelus, 1541 Sheet: 11 2 8 x 16 2 8 to the neat line, framed: 24 x 28 4 8 Single sheet, matted and framed Woodcut double cordiform world map, the title within a ribbon banner along the top edge, Wechelis imprint centre lower edge, showing the world in two hemispheres, the right being mostly Terra Australis, recently discovered, but not yet explored and South