Robert Dudley:  Isole Scoperte da Iacomo le Maier Olandese ne 1617

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Title: Isole Scoperte da Iacomo le Maier Olandese ne 1617

Map Maker: Robert Dudley

Description:

Striking sea chart of the northern coast of part of the South Pacific explored by Jacques Le Maire in 1617, during his circumnavigation of hte world..

Includes a sailing ship and  compass rose. The chart appeared in Dudley's Arcano del Mare, one of the rarest and most highly sought after sea atlases of the 17th Century. Dudley, an Englishman, produced this equisite work while living in Florence. Dudley labored for decades before finally releasing the first edition of this work when he was 73 years old.   A nice example, with a striking compass rose and characteristically fine engraving style. From the second edition of the Arcano del Mare. 

Jacques Le Maire and Willem Schouten were comissioned to find a new route to the Pacific and the Spice Islands to avoid the trading monopoly of the Dutch East India Company and to find the Southern Continent (Terra Australis). 
 

Condition Description: With 1 sheet of text

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