Tabula Magellanica qua Tierræ del Fuego, cum celeberrimis fretis a F. Magellano et I. le Maire detectis

Description

Printed map. Visual scale. Possibly originally published in Jansson's Spanish edition of Mercator's Atlas Novus, Nuevo Atlas, o Teatro De todo El Mundo. The map is first described in Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Vol. II, entry Me 84, p. 438 as being published in a German edition in 1652. Two pages of Spanish text on verso with main heading, "Descripcion del Estrecho Magallanico y del de le Maire." McMaster has another copy with Latin text on verso; see RMC_107061r.

Acquired as part of the Banks Collection.

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Straits of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego (RMC)

Details

Title: Tabula Magellanica qua Tierræ del Fuego, cum celeberrimis fretis a F. Magellano et I. le Maire detectis: novissima et accuratissima descriptio exhibetur
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Subject
Description: Printed map. Visual scale. Possibly originally published in Jansson's Spanish edition of Mercator's Atlas Novus, Nuevo Atlas, o Teatro De todo El Mundo. The map is first described in Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Vol. II, entry Me 84, p. 438 as being published in a German edition in 1652. Two pages of Spanish text on verso with main heading, "Descripcion del Estrecho Magallanico y del de le Maire." McMaster has another copy with Latin text on verso; see RMC_107061r. Acquired as part of the Banks Collection.
Publisher: Apud Joannem Janssonium
Contributor: Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
Date: 1652
Type
Format: map
Identifier: macrepo:80970, local: RMC_107227r
Source
Language: lat
Relation
Coverage: Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina), Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile), South America--Argentina, Chile--Strait of Magellan, Tierra del Fuego
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