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[JANSSONIUS, JOHANNES] Mar del Nort. [Map.]
Amsterdam, ca. 1680. Double-page engraved map, 435 x 560mm., full margins, Latin text on verso; hand-colored in outline, with title cartouche surrounded by animals and an American Indian dressed in skins, and scale cartouche flanked by putti with surveyor's instruments; central compass rose and an extensive grid of rhumb lines; some age-darkening and offsetting, but generally very good condition or better, matted. Great chart of the North Atlantic from the first real sea atlas. Covers area from Rocky Mountains (not shown) in the west to Italy in the east and from the equator in the south to the southern portions of Greenland and Iceland in the north.
Offered for US$ 1350.00 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 54