Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula [cartographic material] /

Double hemispherical map of the world showing Australia as the unmapped Terra Australis Incognita. Relief shown pictorially.; Includes three insets in decorative cartouches ; miniature portraits in each corner featuring Mercator, Hondius, Caesar, Ptolemy and the background features the 4 elements, aqua, terra, aer, and ignis.; Plate from: Gerardi Mercatoris atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura / G. Mercator. Amsterodami : Sumptius Iohannis Cloppenburgij, anno 1636.; Phillips, 450.; Shirley, 336.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm79