ATLAS

A hand-colored engraved frontispiece depicts the mythological Titan Atlas. He appears as a powerful, semi-nude man with a billowing red cloak, carrying the celestial sphere, represented as a star-filled sky, on his shoulders. He stands atop a terrestrial globe, which shows a map of Africa, Asia, and the Indian Ocean, labeled "MAR DI INDIA" Indian Sea and "OCEANUS ETHIOPICUS" Ethiopian Ocean, with a red line indicating the equator. To the left, a multi-colored arc suggests a rainbow or a celestial boundary, and to the right, a white moon hangs in the sky. At the bottom corners, groups of figures represent people from various parts of the world. At the top, a golden banner displays the word "ATLAS". A small slip of paper with a handwritten note is pasted over the left side of the terrestrial globe.

Presumably published
in 1675.