WAGHENAER (LUCAS JANSZ) Zee caerte van Engelants Eyndt, alsoe hem tselfde Landt verthoont beginnede van Sorlinges tot Pleymondt, hand-coloured double-page engraved chart, [1584]
WAGHENAER (LUCAS JANSZ)
Zee caerte van Engelants Eyndt, alsoe hem tselfde Landt verthoont beginnede van Sorlinges tot Pleymondt. Finis Angliae orae maritimae descriptio, et facies, a Sorlingis ad Pleymoutham, hand-coloured double-page engraved chart extending from Scilly to Plymouth, decorative cartouches, coat of arms, compass rose, ships and sea-monsters, farms and livestock on land, Dutch text on verso [Quixley 2; cf. Palmer 1], 332 x 520mm., [Leiden, 1584]
Estimate:
£1,500 - 2,000
US$ 2,400 - 3,100
€1,800 - 2,400

Footnotes

  • A highly decorative depiction of the sea around Cornwall and the South West, including the first printed map of Scilly. Although full of inaccuracies, the chart's marking of safe anchorages and coastal silhouettes proved an invaluable aid to mariners. Indeed the English edition (see following lot) proved so popular that for the next 150 years sailors referred to any volume of charts as a "Wagoner" (Quixley).

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