Acquired From: Leen Helmink
Colouring: Uncoloured
Condition: Excellent
Date Acquired: 24/1/2025
Description: Page from showing Ferdinand Magellan and Willem Schouten sitting across from each other with an armillary sphere between them. Below them is a double hemisphere map of the world, whosing their tracks. They are surrounded by the portraits of Francis Drake, Olivier van Noort, Thomas Cavendish, and Joris van Spilbergen.
First published: Schouten, Willem Cornelisz. Historische Beschreibung, der wunderbarlichen Reyse, welche von einem Holländer, Willhelm Schouten genandt, neulicher Zeit ist verrichtet worden, vol 3, part 11, Frankfurt, De Bry: 1619
Image Size (cm): 19×28
Mapmaker: Schouten, Willem Cornelisz.
Price: 1337
Primary Category: World
Purchase Reference: Ledger
Rarity: R2 Very rare – one or two copies appear on the market
Sheet size (cm): 22×34
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: 1619, Second, German
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