Description de la grande Mer de Sud ...

Description

Title: Description de la grande Mer de Sud ...
Contributor: Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon, d. 1625
Published / Created: 1618?
Description: Bound in facing p. 24.
Imperfect: map has a defect just left of center in the form of a narrow vertical wrinkle that occurred at the time of printing, resulting in a line where no ink was deposited on the page, which also caused a small amount of loss of text.
Map has several small brown and yellow marks on both the recto and verso.
Map has small drop of black ink just left of the word "Latitudinis".
Scale not given.
Extent: 1 map
approximately 18.7 x 41.2 cm. folded to 18.7 x 11.8 cm.
Language: Dutch; Flemish
French
Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Taylor 278
Collection Title: Jovrnal ou Description dv merveillevx voyage de Gvillavme Schovten, hollandois natif de Hoorn
Collection / Other Creator: Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon, d. 1625
Collection Created: A Amstredam : Chez Harman Ianson, marchand libraire, demeurant en la VVarmoes-straet, a le Sereine, 1619
Collection Note: Translation of the Journal ofte Beschryvinghe van de wonderlicke reyse, ghedaen door Willem Cornelisz Schouten, Amsterdam, 1618 (generally referred to as Schouten’s Journal, the author being unknown).

Format: cartographic
Genre: Engravings
Maps
Maps in books
Subject (Geographic): Horn, Cape (Chile)
Le Maire Strait (Argentina)
New Guinea --Maps --Early works to 1800
Oceania --Maps --Early works to 1800
Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) --Maps --Early works to 1800
Subject (Name): Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon, d. 1625

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