Subject: Britain
Period: 1647 (published)
Publication: Ioannis IanssonII Novus Atlas
Color: Hand Color
Size:
22 x 17.25 inches
55.9 x 43.8 cm
Elaborately engraved chart of the British Isles and English Channel. Filled with rhumb lines, compass roses and a very decorative cartouche with figures and dolphins. North oriented to the right.
References: Phillips (A) #5944-25; Van der Krogt (Atlantes) 0130:1.
Condition: C
Light scattered foxing. A few areas of small cracking from color oxidation, one tiny hole in ocean, easily repairable.