Description
hardbound, including 22 folding nautical charts; numerous coast line surveys in the text.
Limited Edition Reprint of the original Leyden edition of 1592; with an introduction by R. A. Skelton.
The 2nd atlas produced by Waghenaer, this compilation of navigational aids & charts was adapted & patterned after A. Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ; also contains a supplementary section of text describing the navigation
to the East Indies and China possibly added after the return of Dirk Gerritsz in 1590.
![La Ilustracion Española y Americana [frontispiece]](https://galleryofprints.shop/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/jo63838-La-Ilustracion-Española-y-Americana-1897-frontispiece-scaled-600x817.jpg)
![3. Mendana aux Iles Salomon. [Mendana in the Solomon Islands] 4. Schouten et Le Maire aux Iles Allou-fatou. [Schouten and Le Maire in the Allou-fatou Islands]](https://galleryofprints.shop/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/JO65063-anonymous-c1800-Schouten-et-Le-Maire-aux-Iles-Allou-fatou-600x750.webp)
![7. Bougainville reçoit à bord un chef de Taiti. [Bougainville receives a chef from Tahiti on board] 8. Cook veut emmener le Roi Farai-Opou. [Cook wants to take King Farai-Opou away]](https://galleryofprints.shop/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/JO65064-anonymous-c1800-Bougainville-recoit-a-bord-un-chef-de-Taiti-600x750.webp)