COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
09186
File Name:
09186-2
Call number:
J590 B915v GVL9 / 2-SIZE
Map title:
Fretum Magellannicum, ...
Place of Publication:
[Frankfurt am Main]
Publisher:
[Matthäus Becker]
Publication date:
[1602]
Map size height:
16 cm.
Map size width:
30 cm.
Item description:
engraved map; pt 2, p. [2]
Geographical description:
Chart of the Strait of Magellan, showing Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. Cartographic elements include profile of the geography of the strait, sea banks or shoals, scale, dividers, and compass rose. Includes four native American figures: a Patagonian giant [?], a woman giving a bird to a child, a man wearing feathered headdress and garment, and a woman wearing a cloak. Also includes penguin, snail, spear, bow and arrow. Items in image lettered for identification in a key below.
Source title:
[America. Pt. 9. Latin] Americae nona & postrema pars ...
Source place:
Francof. : Apud Matth. Beckerum, 1602
References:
Location: pt 2, p. [2]; Church, E.D. Discovery, 168
Geographic Area:
South America
Historical notes:
This work contains three different voyages; Pt. 1 is José de Acosta, Historie naturael ende morael van de Westersche Indien, Haarlem, 1598; Pt. 2 is Barent Janszoon Potgieter, Wijdtloopigh verhael van tgene de vijf schepen, Amsterdam, 1600, here entitled Relatio historica; the appendix and Pt. 3 is Olivier van Noort, Beschryvinghe van de voyagie, Rotterdam & Amsterdam, 1602, here entitled Additamentum nonae partis Americae.
Normalized date:
1602
Fretum Magellannicum, ...
