A chart of the South Sea [cartographic material] / by John Seller, Hydrographer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie ; Dundee, sculp
- Bib ID:
- 3524712
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Seller, John, active 1658-1698
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale [1:24,754,606]
- Description:
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- London : Printed by John Darby, for the Author and are to be sold at his shop at the Hermitage, 1675]
- 1 map : col. ; 43 x 53.4 cm.
- Notes:
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- Map of the Pacific Ocean, being the first English map of the Pacific Ocean, loosely based on Jansson's 1650 map of the Pacific but much updated with additional coverage of the Gulf Coast and the southeastern coast of the United States. California is depicted as an island off the coast of Nova Granada and Nova Hispania but the Americas are heavily annotated with placenames, particularly the west coast of both continents. The map features details based on discoveries such as States Land [i.e. New Zealand] discovered by Abel Tasman in 1642 with 9 placenames; in the northwest appears Iapan [i.e. Japan], the land of Eso [possibly Sakhalin] and Companies Land, and the Isles of Ladrones [i.e. northern Mariana Islands]. The map features the discovery of significant numbers of Pacific islands including those discovered by the Spanish explorer Hernand Galego in 1576 and Magellan in 1519 as well as those discovered by Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten in 1615-16. The map also features a limited part of Nova Guinea [i.e. New Guinea and Carpentaria conjoined] with 13 placenames as well as the southern coastline of Anthony Van Dieman's Land [i.e. Tasmania] with 8 place names. Decorative features include coloured outlines of land areas, a colourful title cartouche depicting examples of native costume, a compass rose, rhumb lines, and col. illustrations of 3 sailing ships and 2 whales.
- Cartouche title.
- Plate 304 from: Atlas maritimus, or the sea-atlas; being a book of maritime charts ... / by John Seller. London : Printed by John Darby, for the Author and are to be sold at his shop at the Hermitage, M.DC.LXXV [1675].
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231270677
- Text in English primarily with some Latin placenames.
- Cited In:
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- National Maritime Museum. Catalogue of the Library ; vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 492 [item no. 429].
- Shirley, N. Maps in the atlases of the British Library ; M.SELL-3b
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1675
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- Copyright:
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1698
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1675
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