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Peru

Forbes and Clark Collections Visualizing Maritime History Project

Hand-colored map of Peru oriented with the north to the left from Jan Jansson and Henrik Hondius's Atlas novus (Amstelodami: Apud Ionnem Ianssonium & Henricum Hondium, c. 1650). Relief shown pictorially. Bar scales are in "Milliaria Germanica communia" and "Milliaria Gallica communia." Ships and sea monsters decorate the Mar del Zur.

In Latin, on verso, are the chapter headings "Description de Peru" (pp. 724v and 721r).


cartography
1650-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Jansson, Jan; Mercator, Gerard
ink; laid paper; pigment
18 1/2 in x 22 in
Netherlands: Amsterdam