Dudley Sea Chart of the Red Sea
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DUDLEY, Sir Robert (1574-1649).
[Red Sea] Carta particolare che cominca con il capo Baduis e finisce con il capo Cumana e mostra la bocca dell mare Rosso...
Engraved map.
Florence, 1646.
20 7/8" x 31 1/2" sheet.
Spectacular sea chart of the southern part of the Red Sea and coastline of the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf of Aden. Dudley's Atlas of Sea Charts was the first set by and Englishman and his maps are among the most sought after of all mapmakers of the 17th Century.
As noted by Parry in Printing & The Mind of Man, "In the genre of sea charts it is Sir Robert Dudley (1573-1649) who made the greatest impression among the English cartographers of the seventeenth century.
[Red Sea] Carta particolare che cominca con il capo Baduis e finisce con il capo Cumana e mostra la bocca dell mare Rosso...
Engraved map.
Florence, 1646.
20 7/8" x 31 1/2" sheet.
Spectacular sea chart of the southern part of the Red Sea and coastline of the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf of Aden. Dudley's Atlas of Sea Charts was the first set by and Englishman and his maps are among the most sought after of all mapmakers of the 17th Century.
As noted by Parry in Printing & The Mind of Man, "In the genre of sea charts it is Sir Robert Dudley (1573-1649) who made the greatest impression among the English cartographers of the seventeenth century.
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