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Copper-engraved map, hand-colored in outline; colored decorative title panel at top, and colored decorative cartouche at bottom. 40.5x50.7 cm (16x20"), archivally matted & framed under UV protective glass.

Jansson's rather charming decorative map of the ancient world, first issued in the supplement to his Atlantis Majoris, borrowed in large part from the classical map first published by Ortelius some sixty years before. Shirley notes that "Europe, Asia and Africa as far south as Madagascar are placed at the center of a much larger oval frame. The climatic zones are marked and there is a prominent cartouche at the bottom which, in state 1, is blank," which is the case in the present copy. Shirley 385. Handsomely framed by Schein & Schein, San Francisco. Provenance: Barbara Keck, purchased from Robert Frew.