Dudley Sea Chart of Central and South America
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DUDLEY, Sir Robert (1574-1649).
[Central / South America] Carta particolare del'mare del Zur che comincia con il capo S. Francesco nel Peru e finisce con il capo S. Lazaro nella nuova Spagnia
Engraved map.
Florence, 1646.
20 7/8" x 31 1/2" sheet.
Nice example of Robert Dudley's rare sea chart of the Pacific Coast of Central and South America, from the coast of Columbia and Ecuador in the north to the Bay of Honduras in the south, centered on Panama. The map shows the Galapogos Islands in the lower left corner and provides a tremendously detailed look at the Pacific Coast.
As noted by Parry in Printing & The Mind of Man, "In the genre of sea charts it is Sir Robert Dudley (1573-1649) who made the greatest impression among the English cartographers of the seventeenth century.
[Central / South America] Carta particolare del'mare del Zur che comincia con il capo S. Francesco nel Peru e finisce con il capo S. Lazaro nella nuova Spagnia
Engraved map.
Florence, 1646.
20 7/8" x 31 1/2" sheet.
Nice example of Robert Dudley's rare sea chart of the Pacific Coast of Central and South America, from the coast of Columbia and Ecuador in the north to the Bay of Honduras in the south, centered on Panama. The map shows the Galapogos Islands in the lower left corner and provides a tremendously detailed look at the Pacific Coast.
As noted by Parry in Printing & The Mind of Man, "In the genre of sea charts it is Sir Robert Dudley (1573-1649) who made the greatest impression among the English cartographers of the seventeenth century.
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