ORTELIUS, A

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ORTELIUS, A
Maris Pacifici. Anvers, 1595. Col. Fente restaurée sur 4 cm le long du pli central. Bel exemplaire. - Some minor age toning. Minor discolouration on the extremities of the centerfold. Repair of split lower part centerfold, 4cm. into engraved area. Good margins. Coloured. Very good condition. 345 x 497 mm Première carte imprimée entièrement consacrée au Pacifique et la première à nommer séparément l'Amérique du Nord et l'Amérique du Sud. Orné de 2 cartouches et du bateau de Magellan le "Victoria". Figure une vaste "Terra Australis Sive Magellanica Nondum Detecta" qui remonte vers le nord pour rejoindre Java, mythe initié par Mercator (qui a mal interprété Marco Polo). C'est aussi la première carte à représenter la Nouvelle-Guinée et le Japon plus proches de l'Asie que de l'Amérique. - This was the first printed map to be devoted solely to the Pacific, and the first to name North and South America separately. It includes most of North and South America, with a vast Terra Australia Sive Magellanica Nondum Detecta which slopes north sharply to join with Java a myth started by Mercator, who had misunderstood Marco Polo. It was also the first map to depict the islands of New Guinea and Japan as being closer to Asia than America, although the Pacific is still many degrees too narrow, a mistake that continued partly out of the desperate desire of many sailors to sail west to the Indies. - Burden, America 74
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