AMERICAS PACIFIC AUSTRALIA SCHEEPS-TOGT DOOR FERDINAND MAGELLAAN

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RARE. Full Title Scheeps-Togt door Ferdinand Magellaan van Kastilien gedaan na R. de la Plata en van daar door zijn ontdekte Straat tot aan de Moluccos. Rare map from 'Naaukeurige versameling der gedenkwaardigste zee- en land-reysen', a series of accounts of voyages' Map illustrated the voyage of Magellan from Spain, through the Straits of Magellan and on to Southeast Asia, where he was killed, prior to the completion of the circumnavigation by his second in command. The map was used to illustrate the Dutch translations of the travel account of Diego Lopez de Sequeira. Magellan was among the crew of the Portuguese squadron of five ships under Sequeira which sailed into Melaka on September 1, 1509, and became the first Europeans to have contact with the Malay Peninsula.Excellent hand colour. Very good condition.

code : M2137

Cartographer : Pieter Van Der AA

Date : 1707 Leiden

Size : 15*23cms

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Pieter Van Der Aa (1659-1733)

Van Der Aa was a prolific publisher, working in Leiden during the first three decades of the eighteenth century. Much of his output consisted of re-issues and re-engravings of map and view plates that he had acquired from earlier mapmakers. Little of his output was original, though that which is has a very distinct style, precisely and elegantly engraved, and is much sought-after today.

Perhaps his most remarkable publication was the elaborate Galerie Agreable Du Monde, issued in 1729, in 66 parts, bound into 27 volumes, which contained about 3,000 plates, apparently limited to 100 sets. Another of his extensive publications was the Cartes Des Itineraires Et Voyages Modernes, a collection of 28 volumes of travel accounts, illustrated with a series of small, but finely engraved maps, often with decorative pictorial title-pieces.

An interesting feature of Van Der Aa's method is that several of his atlases include maps printed within large, separately engraved, elaborately designed mock-frame borders, which were prepared with a blank centre so that individual maps could be over-printed on that area.

Despite the quantity and variety of Van Der Aa's publications they seem to have had only a limited circulation, and so are now scarce.