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Middelburg, large view
Smallegange and the Nieuwe Cronyk van Zeeland It is an extensive (almost 800-page long), illustrated description of Zeeland. The Cronyk was completed in 1696, but first appeared in 1700. The...
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Columbia, Panama and Venezuela
The Spanish treasure map Nice example of Cornelis Wytfliet’s map of Colombia, Panama and Venezuela, one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region. This map shows the wider region...
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Hispaniola Insula
Hispaniola Hispaniola was known in cartographic circles long before Wytfliet. As early as 1528, Bordone drew the island, including the settlement of Isabella, followed by Ramusio (1534), Gastaldi (1548), Ruscelli...
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Iucatana regio et fondura
Iucatana Regio et Fondura On his fourth and final voyage from 1502, Columbus explored the coasts of Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama for months (landing in Almirante Bay). In...
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Artois
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Alaska and California
West coast from Alaska to California by Wytfliet “Limes Occidentis Quivira et Anian” The Limes Occidentis Quivira et Anian represents the coastline of present-day Oregon and California rather than Alaska...
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Peru - Peruani Regni descriptio
Peru by Wytfliet Peruani regni descriptio also includes parts of Bolivia, Ecuador and western Brazil outside of Peru. The region was of particular importance to the Spanish government because of...
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South East Africa - Delineatio Orarum Maritimarum,...
...especially as Goa at this time was the commercial and political center for the Portugal Empire in the East. Van Linschoten left Goa for home in January 1589. On the...
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Zeeland and Vlaanderen
...is just not shown, Lillo and Doel are. The coastal relief is shown at the top right. The title: Beschrijvinghe vande Zeeusche Eijlanden Soe die op hare Strome geleghen zijn...
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Unique set of 5 maps (from the same French atlas, 1613): World and four continents
Gerard and Rumold After the death of the great Gerard Mercator in 1594 it was left to his son Rumold to publish the last of three parts that formed his...
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