World.- Stent (Peter) A New and Accurat Map of the World Drawne according to the best and Late Discoveries: Anno Domi. 1663, double-hemisphere world map elaborately embellished with top and bottom borders with allegorical vignettes of the four elements and seasons, one featuring an elephant, two smaller celestial spheres, Copernicus's heliocentric astronmical model of the solar system in the upper left, and portraits of Drake, Cavendish, Magellan, and Noort, engraving on laid paper with indistinct watermark, sheet 385 x 505 mm. (15 1/8 x 19 7/8 in), laid onto paper support, handling creases and folds, repair to section of loss at central right hand quadrant, several small areas of loss, particularly just above the southern hemisphere celestial sphere, rough edges, with publishers imprint in the lower margin that reads: 'London-Printed and are to be sould by Peter Stent at ye white horse in guilt spurr Street without Newgate: 1665', [circa 1660s].

⁂ Scarce.