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Auction 187, Lot 678

Scarce First State in Full Contemporary Color

"Mar del Zur Hispanis Mare Pacificum", Jansson, Jan

Subject: Pacific Ocean

Period: 1650 (published)

Publication: Novus Atlas

Color: Hand Color

Size:
21.4 x 17.3 inches
54.4 x 43.9 cm
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This significant map covers the whole Pacific Ocean along with the western coastlines of the Americas, Japan, and a bit of New Guinea and Cape York, Australia, showing the recent Dutch discoveries there. The top of the chart is dominated by a large landmass labeled Terra Incognita. A large Island of California appears, based on the Briggs type, most probably using Abraham Goos' map as a model. A curious chain of islands thread their way across the South Pacific with a legend that identifies these islands as being discovered by Hernando Galego in 1576. The chart is centered on a compass rose with rhumb lines and is ornamented with a great title cartouche with Asian figures and the distance scale with putti using navigational instruments. This is the first state with German text on verso.

References: Burden #292; McLaughlin #11; Tooley (Amer) p. 114, #10; Van der Krogt (Vol. I) #0600:1; Wagner (NW) #359.

Condition: B

A sharp impression with full contemporary color on a sheet with some toning and foxing. There is a short centerfold separation that just enters the image at bottom.

Estimate: $1,400 - $1,700

Sold for: $800

Closed on 4/27/2022

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