Hic zodiaci XII sub signis feliciter volvitur terra [cartographic material] /

A double hemispherical map of the world by Nicolaes van Geelkercken and Jan Jansson, originally printed in Amsterdam in 1615, and reprinted anonymously, presumably in the early 1800s, within a frame of the signs of the zodiac. Inserted between Taurus and Orion is 34zBPetit telescope de Herschel34yB, and next to Gemini is 34zBGr.d telescope de Herschel34yB, the small and large telescopes of Sir William Herschel (1738-1822). The latter is presumably Herschel’s 40-foot telescope, the largest in the world at the time, built 1785-1789 and last used in 1815.; Original publication data on eastern hemisphere: 34zBAmstelodami. Excudebat Joannes Janssonius, 161534zB; Title on western hemisphere: Americae vtriusque septentrionalis et Australis typus.; Original version: Amstelodami : Excudebat Joannes Janssonius, 1615.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection Map NK 9678