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SouthAfrica-dudley-1647
$6,500.00
Title
Carta particolare che comincia con il capo Degortam e con il capo Buona Speranza e finisce in gradi 27 di latitudine Australe.
1647 (undated)
1 : 2130000
Description
This is a superb example of Robert Dudley s 1647 coastal chart of South Africa. It was included in Dudley s
Arcano del Mare, hailed by Tooley as
the first sea atlas in which every chart was based on Mercator’s projection, the first to show prevailing winds and currents in the main harbours and anchorages, the first to give magnetic declination, and the first sea atlas by an Englishman.At least in principle, these navigational notes and the adherence to the Mercator projection would make Dudley s charts the first to be of any use at sea. The present chart exhibits all of these qualities.
1647 (undated)
1 : 3600000
Description
A seminal production, this is a fine first-edition, first-state example of Sir Robert Dudley s 1645 - 47 maritime map of the Gulf of Mexico, the first printed nautical chart of that region. It is also the first to be printed using Mercator s Projection - thus making it the first to be practical for actual navigation. Likewise it is also the first to accurately indicate prevailing winds and ocean currents in the Gulf. Coverage extends from the Pacific Coast of Mexico to eastern Florida, and from Galveston Bay (Texas) to modern day Belize and the Bay of Honduras), inclusive of the Yucatan Peninsula and western Cuba. The whole is stunningly engraved in Antonio Francesco Lucini s masterful Italian baroque hand, complete with fine calligraphy and idiosyncratic styling.