’s map, other derivatives of Vopell created by Giovanni Andrea Vavassore and Bernaerd Van den Putte have survived.

 employs the same cordiform projection used on 

’s great wall map of the world of 1507; the motif of two geographers atop the map is also the same as found on Waldseemüller’s map.

The geography differs from Waldseemüller's map, however. North America labelled ‘Nueva Espana’ shares a land mass with Asia and Labrador is connected to Greenland ('Grutlandia'). The map features lines of latitude and longitude based on the Ferro meridian, surrounded by a broad border of windheads, including southern windheads (the bringers of plague), represented as skulls. Men holding a globe and armillary sphere and two smaller projections of a celestial and astrological sphere complete the decoration.

de Girava acknowledges Vopell’s influence, particularly in his rendering of the conjoining of the Asian and 

 landmasses. He notes Balboa’s discovery of the Pacific Ocean in 1513, and intriguingly mentions that the great southern landmass ‘Terra incognita’ had been sighted in 1499.

Double-page cordiform woodcut map of the world.

This densely engraved cordiform map was created by 

, the cosmographer to Emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire. This map was published posthumously in his ‘Dos Libros de Cosmographia’ which describes Brazil, India, and the 

.

The woodblock print is based on Caspar Vopell’s legendary twelve-sheet wall map (1829–1910), of which all known versions have been lost. The map is richly decorated and surrounded by distinctive windheads. It rests on two celestial charts of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres in the lower corners. Atop the map, a cartographer and an astronomer look down onto the Earth. 

There are no known copies of Vopell's legendary twelve-sheet wall map to which this map referred (as acknowledged in the legend below the map), supposedly published in 1545, 1549, and 1552.

All that survives of Caspar Vopell’s legendary wall-map.

Girava World Map