Acquired From: Leen Helmink
Colouring: Uncoloured
Condition: Good
Confirmed: 3/10/2024
Date Acquired: 28/1/2018
Dealers ID No.: 41532 Ruderman
Description: Matthias Quad was a renowned German mapmaker and engraver, best known his contributions to geographic publications during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He was particularly active in Cologne where he specialised in engraving geographical texts, often in collaboration with publisher Johann Bussemacher. In 1600, Quad published the Geographisch Handtbuch (Geographical Handbook), a compact compendium of geographical and historical knowledge that included maps. Among these was Chica sive Patagonica et Australis Terra. nQuad likely drew on Cornelis Wytfliet's (#176) or Johanne Metelluss map (#226) for inspiration, but his work is a synthesis rather than a direct copy. Like these earlier maps, Quads is divided into two sections. The upper half, using a standard projection, portrays the southern tip of South America (Chica sive Patagonum Regio), separated by a strait from a large, speculative southern landmass labelled Australis Terrae Pars.nThe lower section of the map, drawn in a polar projection, presents a vast Terra Australis comprising four peninsulas extending toward the southern tips of the known continents. One peninsula reaches toward the Cape of Good Hope, while another stretches into the Indian Ocean, ending just south of Java Major and featuring place names such as Maletur Regnum, Beach, and Lucach Regnum. A third peninsula extends toward Nova Guinea, separated by a narrow strait. The fourth peninsula, incomplete on the map, likely points toward South America.nIn contrast to the previous two versions by Wytfliet and Metellus, Quads is smaller and includes an extensive Latin text to the left that describes the southern continent lying south of Nova Guinea (New Guinea). Translated into English it reads the text reads:nthe southernmost of all countries, extends immediately toward the Polar Circle, but also towards the countries of the east beyond the Tropic of Capricorn and almost at the equator its confines are to be found, and in the east, separated by a narrow strait, it lies in front of new Guinea, but is explored only at a few coastal places, because after one and another voyage that route has been discounted and thence rarely sails are set except that ships are driven off by cyclones. It takes its beginnings two or three degrees under the equator and is assigned such an extension by some that it may well appear to be the fifth continent after having been discovered fully.
First published: Quad, Matthias Geographisch Handtbuch Cologne: Johann Bussemacher, 1600
Mapmaker: Quad, Matthias (1557-1613)
Price: 2,200
Primary Category: World
Purchase Reference: Ledger 2022. Email 14/06/2019
Rarity: R1 Extremely rare – occasionally seen on the market
References: Tooley, R.V. (Australia) #1430; Nordenskiöld, A.E. (Facsimile) p.134; Meurer, P.H. (Cologne) Qua 83, fig.170; Clancy, R. 7.2.
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: 1600
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