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Antique World Map 1618 — Geylekerck, Orbis Terrarum Descriptio

Name: Antique World Map 1618 — Geylekerck, Orbis Terrarum Descriptio
Brand: Old Map Studio
SKU: LOC2017585805
Price: 14.9 USD
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CODE: LOC2017585805

Antique world map of 1618 by Nicolaes Geylekerck, Orbis terrarum descriptio in two hemispheres, restored full sheet

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Description

An old world map of 1618, with Eden and the last judgement around it

The Latin title describes the layout exactly: orbis terrarum descriptio duobis planis hemisphaeriis comprehensa — a description of the world set out in two flat hemispheres. Nicolaes Geylekerck drew it and Joannes Janssonius printed it in Amsterdam in 1618. On a sheet of 45 by 59 cm, around two circles of 27 cm, the plate carries illustrations no modern world map would have: the garden of Eden, the last judgement, and the four seasons. In 1618 a map of the world was still expected to say where the world began and how it would end.

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Original	Nicolaes Geylekerck, printed by Joannes Janssonius, Amsterdam, 1618
Sheet	45 × 59 cm, two hemispheres of 27 cm
Scan	full sheet 6939 × 5306 px; the map inside the trimmed border 6768 × 5048 px. From the library's own scan, not an upscale
Print size at 300 dpi	the map prints to 57 cm (22 in), the full sheet with margins to 58 cm (22 in)
You download	six ZIP archives: full sheet, trimmed, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4 and ISO A
Inside each one	one JPEG at 300 dpi, the restoration passport as a PDF, a READ ME

How to print

Pick the archive whose proportions match your frame, so nothing is cropped or stretched.
Ask for matte fine-art paper, printed in sRGB with auto-enhancement off.
Where to print it: print shops near you and checked prices at online labs.

Source and rights

Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, call number G3200 1618 .G4, LCCN 2017585805. The Library states the content is free to use and reuse, crediting Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. Its record is candid about this copy: mounted on paper, wrinkled, stained, with pin holes in all four corners, and a French map of the North Pole stuck to the back. There is no TIFF master in the package. Catalogue record: Library of Congress →

Every map is a scan of a real sheet held in a named archive — library, shelfmark and year, all stated. Nothing generated, nothing redrawn.