07/20/93
CONTACT: Stanford University News Service (650) 723-2558
STANFORD - Historic maps and atlases from the Stanford University Libraries' Department of Special Collections will be on display in the lobby of Green Library through Friday, Sept. 3.
The exhibit, "Here & There: Antiquarian Maps," is free and open to the public. Call 723-9108 for Green Library summer hours.
Original maps on display include a 1513 woodcut map of the Malay Peninsula by Martin Waldseemuller; a hand-colored double-hemisphere map printed in Paris in 1669 that depicts California as an island; an English Victorian map (1832) comparing the heights and lengths of what were at that time thought to be the world's principal mountains and rivers (Mount Everest is not represented); and a strip map by John Ogilby representing the first survey of the roads of England and Wales, published in London in 1675.
Two volumes of Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, a 1612 Italian folio edition and a 1593 miniature edition both published by the Plantin Press in Venice, are also included.
An enlarged facsimile of a map of Iceland published by Ortelius in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, features drawings of sea monsters. An accompanying legend describes the monsters in vivid detail:
"M, the Staukul, the Dutchmen call it Springual; he hath beene seene to stand a whole day together upright upon his taile. It is so called of leaping or skipping. It is a very dangerous enemy to seamen and fishers, and greedily seeketh after mans flesh."
-pr-
lid, pw maps
930720Arc3181.html
This is an archived release.
This release is not available in any other form.
Images mentioned in this release are not available online.
Stanford News Service has an extensive library of images,
some of which may be available to you online.
Direct your request by EMail to newslibrary@stanford.edu.