Beschriiuinghe vãde wonderbaerlicke costen van Sweden, de met dippen ende eiilanden beset siin, mitsgaders oock die twee groote eiilanden Gottlandt ende Oelant, onder dese costen oste landen ghelegen = Description de suede, et ses costes admirables, entourees de rocers, escueils et isles. des deux isles grandes et renommees Gotthie. et Oelande, situees saubs les costes de ceste provĩce in EarthWorks

Beschriiuinghe vãde wonderbaerlicke costen van Sweden, de met dippen ende eiilanden beset siin, mitsgaders oock die twee groote eiilanden Gottlandt ende Oelant, onder dese costen oste landen ghelegen = Description de suede, et ses costes admirables, entourees de rocers, escueils et isles. des deux isles grandes et renommees Gotthie. et Oelande, situees saubs les costes de ceste provĩce

Author(s): Waghenaer, Lucas Janszoon, 1534 or 1535-1606 and Claesz, Cornelis, approximately, 1546-1609
Description: Benjamin Wright cælator. 2 bar scales on map, given in “Franche miilen” and “Duitzsche miile” (10 units [= 7.8 cm]). North oriented toward upper right. Index numbers throughout but no apparent key. Decorative cartouches, compass roses, rhumb lines. Shows topography, vegetation, waterways, shoals. Pictorial vignettes of ship, sea monster. French translations. Appears in Waghenaer's Thresoor der Zeevaert, originally published by Cornelis Claesz in Amsterdam, 1592; this map possibly from French edition, 1606. This copy has pencil inscription in lower left: 209.
Collection: Thresoor der Zeevaert and Renaissance Exploration Map Collection
Place(s): Europe and Sweden
Held by: Stanford
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