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C1671
( )
Totius Orbis Terrarum Tabula, Ejusque Post Diluvium Divisio Inter Filios Noachi.
Mapmaker:
Rare c.18th map of the world after the Flood and how it was divided amongst the sons of Noah. The continents are marked with numbers corresponding to the extensive key at lower section of the map. Australia marked 29 in … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Totius Orbis Terrarum Tabula, Ejusque Post Diluvium Divisio Inter Filios Noachi.
Date:
C1671
( )
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition, with fold as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
330mm
x 210mm
Frame Size:
590mm
x 480mm
Paper Size:
360mm
x 252mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
Description:
Rare c.18th map of the world after the Flood and how it was divided amongst the sons of Noah.
The continents are marked with numbers corresponding to the extensive key at lower section of the map. Australia marked 29 in the key, is shown according to the discoveries of Able Tasman, California is shown as an island while the hoped for Northwest Passage is shown as a possibility. The location of Eden is shown as being near Baghdad. The decorative title cartouche includes a scene of Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood.
Collections:
State Library New South Wales: Call Number M2 100/1671/1
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State Library New South Wales: Call Number M2 100/1671/1
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Joseph Moxon (1627 - 1691)
Moxon was a globemaker, mapmaker, instrument-maker, printer, publisher, letter-founder, engraver, author and translator. Hydrographer to the King. Born at Wakefield, Yorkshire the son of James Moxon, a puritan printer who worked at Delft and Rotterdam in Holland. Moxon is said to have attended Wakefield Grammar School. He worked in partnership with his brother James as a printer 1646-1649, both brothers having become free of the Weavers' Company by patrimony in 1646. He thereafter spent some years training as a globe and mapmaker, perhaps in Holland, perhaps with Blaeu. He was in partnership with John Sugar and advertising globes in London in 1653 and later successfully petitioned, with the support of Isaac Newtown and others, to be appointed Hydrographer to the King "for the making of globes, maps and sea-platts." the warrant signed 10 Jan. 1662. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 1678. He produced, 'A book of drawing, lmming, washing or colouring of mapps and prints' 1647.
