Psittacorum regio sic a Lusitanis appellate ob incredibilem earum avium ibidem magnitudinem. Hae regiones cuidam Hispano apparuerunt, cum disiectus a classe in hoc Australi vagaretur Oceano. Hanc continentem Australem nonulli Magellanicam regionem abeius inventore nuncupant. Notes on Terra Australis more generally (from left to right): However, its re-inclusion on this map raises the possibility that van den Keere was reacting to news of Willem Janszoon's 1605-06 voyage to Australia. Maletur, and the nearby Beach and Lucach are toponyms in Marco Polo’s Travels. In the vicinity of present-day Australia, van den Keere has added, “ Maletur regnum scatens aromatibus” . These include rumors from Spanish and Portuguese sources (in the Pacific), as well as more detailed notes on English and Dutch exploration in the Arctic. Where Blaeu left blank areas, van den Keere has compiled notes from other sources to explain what might exist in these unmapped locations. In general, the additions evidence van den Keere's stronger focus on recent and potential exploration at the edges of the world. These are largely confined to captions in the Arctic and on Terra Australis, but those textual choices provide important insight into van den Keere's editorial outlook. This, however, is a rare first state.ĭifferences between the present map and Blaeu's 1606 world mapĭespite its initial resemblance, the present map has significant differences when compared to Blaeu's 1606 map. Eventually, the map was heavily reworked and reissued by Moses Pitt in the 1680s. Thereafter, the plate was sold to Jan Jansson, who used the map in only a few early editions of his atlas. The Le Maire Straits that run to the east of the Tierra del Fuego, discovered by Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten in 1616, were added to the plate around 1621. Both the Arctic and Antarctic Circles are detailed in insets towards the lower corners of the map. Notable improvements to Plancius' map include the discoveries of the voyages of Willem Barents (1594-1597) in the Russian Arctic, namely the correct depiction of Novaya Zemlya as an island, with an open sea lying between it and the North Pole. Related to this aspect, a sprinkling of English names in the Canadian Arctic is included as a result of Martin Frobisher and John Davis's explorations in search of the Northwest Passage in 1576-1587. The map features a lengthy notation to the left and right of the large cartouche titled 'America' that discusses whether in fact the apocryphal Anian Straits (at the location of modern-day Alaska) and the Davis Straits actually join to form the Northwest Passage. The map incorporates some of the classic cartographic hypotheses of the period, including an elongated Northwest Coast of America, a massive mysterious southern continent (Antarctica) with a very narrow strait between it and South America, as well as an incomplete New Guinea that is attached to the southern continent. The map is skillfully derived from Willem Janszoon Blaeu's double-page world map of 1608, but, through van den Keere's extensive annotations, the present map includes far more information about potential discoveries in the Arctic, Antarctic, and Australia.Ĭartographically, the map's lineage can be traced through the Blaeu image to Petrus Plancius's wall map of 1592. This particular example also carries manuscript annotation on the recto and verso in a seventeenth-century hand. The map is considered to be one of the supreme examples of the Golden Age of Dutch Baroque cartography. Very Rare First State of Van Den Keere’s World Map – With Lengthy Handwritten Descrition of the Voyages of Francis Drake on Versoįine and very rare example of Pieter van den Keere's decorative map of the world, issued in 1608.
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