1610 – A. Tornielli – Totius Orbis Terrarum

Titles:           “Situs Partium Praecipuarum Totius Orbis Terrarum”

 

Rare and unusual world map by Augustino Torniello, the second state, with extra place names and added the spandrels in the corners.  It’s presented on an oval projection, based on Abraham Ortelius’s map of 1587. The map is decorated with wind-head spandrels in each corner. In the Arctic there are both Northeast and Northwest Passages. North America bears the name of America Mexicana with an unnamed St. Lawrence River stretching far across the continent and no Great Lakes. South America is named Perviana and is shown in the bulbous, potato shape that Ortelius used for his earliest versions of the continent. An unnamed Amazon reaches far across South America, nearly reaching the opposite coast. A massive Regionis Antarctica extends across the southern portion of the world, with only the place name of Beach noted on a portion of what would become Australia, in reference to Marco Polo’s writings of his explorations. In Africa, the Nile originates in the southern tip of the continent, but without the Ptolemaic twin lake source.

The map comes from Augustino Torniello book “Annales Sacri et Profani…”, published in Milan, 1610.

 

Cartographer:         Augustino Torniello (1543-1622)

Sheet size:                   43,3 x 34,2 cm

Year:                             1610

Technique:               copper engraving

 

Condition:
Good, original condition. Watermarked paper. Water stained in lower margin. Middle fold as published.

 

This is an original antique map published in 1610 and NOT a modern copy or reprint

 

On your request I will provide a Certificate of Authenticity