
ATLASES AND MAPS
Lot 141•
SOUTH AMERICA - STRAIT OF MAGELLAN [DUDLEY (ROBERT)] Carta particolare dello Stretto di Magellano e di Maire, [Florence, Francesco Onofri, 1647]
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
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SOUTH AMERICA - STRAIT OF MAGELLAN
[DUDLEY (ROBERT)] Carta particolare dello Stretto di Magellano e di Maire, early issue without "Lo.6o" added to the cartouche, double-page engraved map by Antonio Francesco Lucini after Dudley, decorative cartouche, compass in the sea area, 500 x 750mm., [Florence, Francesco Onofri, 1647]
Footnotes
Map showing the Strait of Magellan from Robert Dudley's Arcano del Mare, the first sea atlas published by an Englishman, and the first atlas to utilize the Mercator Projection on a uniform basis.