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> Antique world map by van Geelkercken Unrecorded first state of
van Geelkercken's very rare 1617 double hemisphere map Orbis
Terraum Descriptio Duobis Planis Hemisphaeriis Comprehesa - Nic
Geilekerck fecit - Excudebat Joannes Janssonius A° 1617 -
Nicolaas van Geelkercken, 1617. Double hemisphere world map by
Nicolaes van Geelkercken. Date on map: 1617 Shirley: "According
to the last part of the text on the left-hand cartouche,
Spilbergen's passage around the strait of Magellan (which
actually took place in Januray 1616) is stated to have taken
place in the previous year of 1615, thus indicating that the map
was being prepared in 1616. However the first issue known, of
which I have only come across two copies, is dated 1617 and
still shows only Magellan's strait. Four or five examples are
extant dated 1618 ..." Later states: 1632 and undated. In all
the states later than 1617 Le Ma