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JANSSON, Joannes (1588-1664). Mar del Zur Hispanis Mare Pacificum. Amsterdam, ca 1650.
Engraved map of the Pacific, outline coloring in contemporary hand, image 442 x 545 mm (493 x 599 mm sheet). Showing the west coast of North and South America with California as an island, Latin text on verso. (Light staining and offsetting.)
FIRST ISSUE, FIRST STATE of the first map of the whole Pacific to show California as an island and the earliest map of the Pacific to appear in a Dutch atlas. Featuring the recently "discovered coastlines of southern New Guinea and Cape York, Australia" (Burden). Burden 292; McLaughlin 11; Potter p.129; Wagner 359.
Engraved map of the Pacific, outline coloring in contemporary hand, image 442 x 545 mm (493 x 599 mm sheet). Showing the west coast of North and South America with California as an island, Latin text on verso. (Light staining and offsetting.)
FIRST ISSUE, FIRST STATE of the first map of the whole Pacific to show California as an island and the earliest map of the Pacific to appear in a Dutch atlas. Featuring the recently "discovered coastlines of southern New Guinea and Cape York, Australia" (Burden). Burden 292; McLaughlin 11; Potter p.129; Wagner 359.