"Chili Provincia Amplissima", Wytfliet, Cornelis
Subject: Chile
Period: 1598 (circa)
Publication:
Color: Hand Color
Size:
11.3 x 9 inches
28.7 x 22.9 cm
This important early map covers Chile from Valdivia to Camana. The map details rivers, mountains, and numerous cities and villages west of the Andes. It is simply adorned with a strapwork cartouche in a stipple engraved sea. This was published in either Wytfliet's Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum or Histoire Universelle des Indes Occidentales et Orientales…
References: cf. Mickwitz & Miekkavaara #307-3.
Condition: A
A nice impression on a bright sheet with a seahorse watermark and a pair of small worm holes at center that have been professionally infilled.
