Pascaerte vande Zuyd-Zee tussche California, en Ilhas de Ladrones

A$7,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Amsterdam : Pieter Goos, op t Waater inde Vergulde Zeespiegel, 1666. 430 x 538 mm (image), 465 x 555 mm (sheet), had coloured, decorative cartouche, a fine example. A fine example of Pieter Goos sea chart of the Pacific Ocean. Extending from Van Diemen s Land to Japan, and from New Zealand to California, it significantly notes discoveries in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Goos s chart is among the earliest maps to focus on the Dutch discoveries in New Zealand and eastern Australia. Abel Tasman s explorations in Australia and New Zealand of 1642 are mentioned and dated, along with his naming of van Diemen s Land, after the Dutch East India Company s governor-general, who had commissioned his voyage. Goos locates the discoveries of Tasman in the Gulf of Carpentaria (modern day Queensland) in 1644, and marks New Guinea as a separate landmass to the coast of Carpentaria, making it one of the earliest sea charts to recognise the passage between New Guinea and the Australian continent. Numerous Pacific islands are located. Across the Pacific Ocean, California is delineated along with the semi-mythical Straits of Anian, which it was believed gave access to the North-West Passage. Pieter Goos sea atlas De Zee-Atlas ofte water-wereld was among the most important and commercially successful Sea Atlases of the 17th Century. Goos father, Abraham Goos, was one of the most sought after Dutch engravers of his time (for example, he engraved a number of the maps for John Speed s Atlas). Pieter Goos

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