See also Gowrie Galleries descriptionnThe Dutch expedition led

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries

Colouring: Uncoloured

Condition: Excellent

Confirmed: 29/09/2024

Date Acquired: 12/7/2011

Dealers ID No.: M435/1 (STK 1991.01) on verso GER 2551

Description: See also Gowrie Galleries descriptionnThe Dutch expedition led by Willem Cornelis Schouten and Jacob Le Maire from 1615 to 1617 was the sixth recorded circumnavigation of the globe. During their journey, they discovered previously uncharted sections of New Guinea's coastline and found a new strait near Tierra del Fuego, which was later named after Le Maire. They also mapped Staten Island. Schouten's journal, published in Dutch and French by Willem Blaeu in 1618, was the first to document this voyage.nThe journal was accompanied by a double-hemispherical world map depicting the expedition's route, with the continents outlined in a single dark line. In the first state of the map, the names of the Tropics, as well as the islands of Japan, Banda, St. Helena, and the Cape of Good Hope, were absent. These names were included in the second state, which is this version of the map. Above the map are portraits of Ferdinand Magellan and Willem C. Schouten, flanked by angels holding laurel wreaths. The top corners feature illustrations of the expedition's two ships, the Victoria and the Eendracht. Along the borders are portraits of four other renowned circumnavigators: Francis Drake, Thomas Cavendish, Olivier van Noort, and George van Spilbergen.

First published: Schouten, Willem, Journal ofte beschryvinge van de wonderlicke reyse. Amsterdam: Willem Blaeu, 1618

Image Size (cm): 12.7×17.5

Mapmaker: Schouten, Willem

Price: A3,500 plus gst

Primary Category: World

Purchase Reference: Inv. 4260

Rarity: R3 Uncommon – dealers can usually obtain a copy

References: Willem Corneliszoon Schouten, Journal ofte beschryvinghe van de wonderlicke reyse ghedaen door Willem Corneliszoon Schouten van Hoorn, in de jaren 1615, 1616 en 1617 (Amsterdam, 1618).nGünter Schilder, Monumenta cartographica Neerlandica, vol. 3 (Alphen aan den Rijn: Canaletto, 1993), pl. 3.173, 247-248. Also Herman de la Fontaine Verwey, Willem Jansz Blaeu and the Voyage of Le Maire and Schouten, Quaerendo 3, no. 2 (1973): 87105.

Sheet size (cm): 15.5×23

Shirley ID #: 297 Mapping the World

Technique: Copper Engraving

This state: 1618, Second