Cartographer:
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Engraver:
Baptista a Doetechum
Title:
Lectuli et ratio quibus.
Stock Code:
6045
Method:
Copper engraving
Colouring:
Uncoloured
Atlas:
Histoire de la Navigation.
Size: (W x H):
32cm x 25cm
12½ inches x 10 inches
Date:
1638
Price:
£195
Handsome print of a mandarin and attendants on a river bank watching another mandarin on a boat. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ‘Description de l’Amerique’, ‘Le Grande Route de Mer’ and ‘Histoire de la Navigation’, and were published individually and together in many editions from 1595 onwards.
Fine condition.