MAR DEL ZUR HISPANIS MARE PACIFICUM, c.1650

Jan Jansson, Amsterdam
Original outline color, 17.25x21.50 inches

The first state of "the first chart of the entire Pacific Ocean." (Burden 292) and the first of the Pacific to show California as an island. From the string of fictitious islands in the South Pacific, to the recently discovered coastlines of Australia and New Guinea, to "Japon" and "Corai" and Terra Incognita in the north, this map makes its historical statements in the decorative context of the Golden Age of Cartography. Jansson was one of the great figures of that age. This map is from a German edition of his "Atlas Novus." Very good condition; light browning.

$2,850 (NW037)