1639 Jansson Scarce Original Antique Map of Venezuela, A. de Berrio & W Raleigh China Plate area: - Light uplift

Plate area: - Light uplift along folds

and incredibly important map of Patagonia & the Magellan Straits but more importantly one of the first maps to depict a distinctive outline of Australia - depicted here as part of Terra Australis the Great Southern Land - and was published by Cornelis van Wytfliet in the 1597 edition of Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum

and Spanish Florida

whose root is the ancient name Hispania

The new commander Pedro Fernandes de Queirós thus decided to abandon the settlement and they sailed north to the Spanish territory of the Philippines

1639 Jansson Scarce Original Antique Map of Venezuela, A. de Berrio & W Raleigh China Plate area: - Light upliftTitle : Venezuela, cum Parte Australi Novae Andalusiae Date : 1639 Size: 24in x 20in (610mm x 510mm) Ref #: 70710 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This beautifully hand coloured original antique map of what is today modern Venezuela, northern South America was published in the 1639 French Edition of Mercator's Atlas by Mercators successors Jan Jansson & Henricus Hondius. This map is in stunning condition on bright heavy stable paper. with