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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. HARDCOVER; ex-library; corners bumped, o/w in very good condition. This is a heavy volume; extra shipping might be required for priority mail or international orders. Book.

Excellent. Light toning, else fine with original color. Size 17.25 x 21.5 Inches. This is a superb example of Jan Jansson's 1650 map of the Pacific Ocean. It appeared in the 5th volume of Jansson's Atlas Novus , which focused on the world's oceans and can be construed as the first sea atlas intended for a general audience. It is the first chart of the Pacific to appear in a Dutch atlas and the first printed chart of the Pacific to depict California as an island. Striking, speculative cartography appears throughout, including an insular California and an insular Korea. It also includes a mysterious but expansive South Sea archipelago associated with the elusive Spanish explorer Hernán Gallego. Island of California Jansson's map is the first Dutch-printed nautical chart to feature an insular California. The form it takes here follows his own 1636 America Septentrionalis , modeled on the 1625 Briggs map The North Part of America . The chart includes a text (identical to that on the North America map) recounting how Dutch privateers captured a Spanish ship carrying a map of the island of California. This legend, including even the dimensions of the legendary island, contributed significantly to cementing the enduring Insular California myth. The mapping of Mexico and Central America closely adheres to the 1630 Gerritz / De Laet Nova Hispania . The Southwest and the Rio del Norte East of California (on the mainland) are the Hopi Pueblos ( Pueblos de Moqui ). A river positioned appropriately for the Colorado appears here as Rio del Norte . While it does not continue deep into the continent, it is an erroneous Rio Grande, correctly rooted in New Mexico but flowing not to the Gulf of Mexico but westwards to the Sea of California. Japan and the Insular Korea Japan and Korea are at the map's extreme northwest. In most respects, their portrayal follows with Jansson's 1644 Nova et Accurata Japoniae, Terrae Esonis . Puzzlingly, the present work eliminates the cartography of Maerten de Vries and Cornelis Jansz Coen, which were prominent on the earlier work. Instead - and far removed to the east - the present work fills the North Pacific with a massive 'Terra incognita' separate from both Asia and America. The convention of mapping Korea as an island can be traced to Ortelius' 1595 Japoniae Insulae Descriptio , drawn by the Portuguese Jesuit Luis Teixeria and published by Ortelius. The model, which presented Korea as a long, narrow, triangular island, remained relatively consistent until about 1634, when the shape seen here began to appear on the maps of Jansson's competitor, Blaeu. It is understandable why Jansson and Blaeu's maps and charts - largely derived from the work of Hessel Gerritsz - should retain an insular Korea as Gerritsz printed matter explicitly named Korea an island. It is, nonetheless, curious why Gerritsz should have done so, as his 1622 Mar Del Sur correctly presented Korea as a peninsula. We are left only to speculate whether the official VOC chartmaker simply changed his mind or whether the peninsularity of Korea was of such cartographic import that its revelation on a printed map ran against VOC interests. The Korea-as-an-island error was corrected in Blaeu's maps of 1655. East Indies and Australia The chart includes the eastern extreme of the Indies, most notably New Guinea and part of northern Australia. It also shows the lands charted in 1605-06 on the western coast of Queensland by Willem Janszoon (no relation to the mapmaker). This is consistent with the detail found on Hessel Gerritsz's c. 1630 map of the East Indies and reflected the state of the art of Dutch knowledge prior to Tasman's voyage. Gallego's South Pacific Islands The array of Pacific Islands appearing between the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn were familiar to the Dutch due to the explorations of Le Maire, Schouten, and Spilbergen; they appear on Gerritsz' manuscripts as early as 1622. The multitudinous islands dominating the Pacific south of.