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Hand-colored double-paged illustration from series 17, page 124 of the book Atlantis Majoris Quinta Pars Orbem Maritimum seu Omnium Marium totius Orbis Terrarum Navigationibus hodierno tempore frequentatorum descriptionem accuratisimam continens : cui adjunctus est Orbis Antiquus et Graecia Parallela (Amsterdam: 1650). Jansson's book was the first true sea atlas, published as the fifth volume of Jansson's Atlas Novus.


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