Pacific Ocean.- Australasia.- Americas.- Jansson (Jan) Mar del Zur Hispanis Mare Pacificum, the first chart of the Pacific Ocean to show California as an Island, including the western coastlines of the Americas, Japan, and a bit of New Guinea and Cape York, Australia, showing recent Dutch discoveries, engraving on laid paper without watermark, platemark 450 x 550 mm. (17 3/4 x 21 3/4 in), sheet 485 x 590 mm. (19 x 23 1/4 in), Latin text verso, some scattered spotting, central vertical fold with careful repairs to splitting, marginal nicks and tears, with very minor loss to extremities, unframed, [Amsterdam, circa 1650].
Pacific Ocean.- Australasia.- Americas.- Jansson (Jan) Mar del Zur Hispanis Mare Pacificum, the first chart of the Pacific Ocean to show California as an Island, including the western coastlines of the Americas, Japan, and a bit of New Guinea and Cape York, Australia, showing recent Dutch discoveries, engraving on laid paper without watermark, platemark 450 x 550 mm. (17 3/4 x 21 3/4 in), sheet 485 x 590 mm. (19 x 23 1/4 in), Latin text verso, some scattered spotting, central vertical fold with careful repairs to splitting, marginal nicks and tears, with very minor loss to extremities, unframed, [Amsterdam, circa 1650].
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