Author: Lucas Jansz Waghenaer
Publisher: Van Hoeve, Amsterdam.
Year: 1980 [1592]
Size: 26 x 30.5 cm [sm. folio]
Reference: Beijers # 1292
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hardbound, including 22 folding nautical charts; numerous coast line surveys in the text.
Limited Edition Reprint of the original Leyden edition of 1592; with an introduction by R. A. Skelton.
The 2nd atlas produced by Waghenaer, this compilation of navigational aids & charts was adapted & patterned after A. Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ; also contains a supplementary section of text describing the navigation
to the East Indies and China possibly added after the return of Dirk Gerritsz in 1590.
