Andreas’s map is known to have been issued separately, with a sub- title: ‘Partitio Magnitudinus Universi Orbis...Cologne, Lambertus Andreas 1596’. However, most examples were issued in translations of the ‘popular politico-geographical’ book by Jesuit scholar and renowned economist Giovanni Botero (1533–1617), ‘Theatrum oder Schauspiegel’, first published without maps in 1591.

’s map and retaining the bulge in the coastline of Chile. The southernmost regions of the world are covered by the large landmass of ‘Terra Australis’, New Guinea is correctly shown as a separate island, and the depiction of the East Indies includes the discoveries of Marco Polo. It is very similar to another world map by Matthais Quad of the same year, and there is some debate about exactly which map came first. The fact that Lambert Andreas published Quad’s ‘Europae totius Terrarum Orbis Partis Praestantissimae’ (1596) further muddies the water.

Lambert Andreas (fl. 1590–1598), was a well-known publisher of topographical works in Cologne in the 1590s, and a contemporary and collaborator of Matthais Quad, Bertram Buchholtz, Peter Keschedt, Johann Christoffel, Gottfried von Kempen, and Cornelius Sutor. Together they helped to make Cologne one of the great map centres of Europe in the last three decades of the sixteenth century. Their atlases were generally small format and highly derivative, but they had a profound effect on the development of a map-reading public.

Lambert Andreas created this small map in minute detail. The engraving is incredibly fine, with myriad geographical features and a huge sea monster rampaging in the oceans. The map is derived from various earlier sources, particularly 

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Andreas was a well-known publisher who helped to make Cologne one of the great map centres of Europe. The small size of atlases, lowering the cost, and increasing ease of publication enabled a significant increase among those members of the public able to acquire maps. 

During the 1570s, Antwerp had been the dominant centre for map production in northwestern Europe, but after the Hapsburg invasion in 1585, Leiden, Cologne, and Duisburg grew in prominence, as skilled craftsmen and publishers fled religious persecution. It was in Cologne that the town plans and views of Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg’s 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' were produced.

A fine world map from Cologne, published at the height of the city’s prominence as a centre for map production. Based on 

’s projection, it includes a legend that notes that the circumference of the Earth is equal to 5,400 German miles. Using the Imperial German mile, this would make the circumference of the Earth a creditable 25,380 English miles as opposed to 24,901, the circumference in reality. 

Double-page engraved copperplate map of the world on a Mercator projection

Andreas Lambert's World Map