Rare map of Straight of Magellan, 1630
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Author: Hondius, Jodocus / Jean Blaeu
Title: Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire exactissima delineatio
Place Published: Amsterdam
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Date Published: [1630]
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Copper-engraved map. 37.5x49.3 cm (14¾x19¼").
Striking map of the tip of South America with the Strait of Magellan and Le Maire Strait, both strategically important and difficult to navigation, making this an important chart. The coastlines of Tierra del Fuego (the land of fire) are incomplete. A quaint rendering of a huge Patagonian warrior and a tiny European accompanies a notation about the island's inhabitants. The map is engraved to shown the mountainous terrain and decorated with a central compass rose, galleons, wildlife (including sea lions shown with fish tails and lion's heads) and sea monsters. The plate was acquired by Blaeu in 1629 from the Hondius' estate and he added a text describing the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter who accompanied captain Sebald de Weert to the Straits in 1599/1600, being the first Dutch vessels to sail through the Strait of Magellan. There is no text on verso.
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