This desirable and beautiful double-hemispheric world map and is considered by many to be one of the earliest published world maps to be printed in English.   It is the first atlas map to show California as an island and also one of the first to show the settlement of New Plymouth. The coastline in North America around the tip of California is either blank or exceedingly to the west as it approaches Alaska. The Straits of Magellan are inaccurately shown.  The Southerne Unknowne Land shows the large continent covering much of the southern hemisphere – a combination of Australia and Antarctica of today.  North East Asia isn’t fully explored yet by Westerners and consequently Kamchatka is largely missing and Japan is misshaped. This highly decorative production is surrounded by two celestial hemispheres, figural allegorical representations of Water, Earth, Air and Fire, plus 4 portraits.  The map is beautifully engraved, highly detailed throughout is dated 1626 but published through 1632.