"Chili Provincia Amplissima", Wytfliet, Cornelis
Subject: Chile
Period: 1597 (circa)
Publication: Histoire Universelle des Indes Occidentales et Orientales...
Color: Hand Color
Size:
11.2 x 9 inches
28.4 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: B+
A nice impression on a lightly toned sheet with a large "C" watermark, light foxing, and a couple short worm tracks in the left blank margin that have been repaired with archival materials.
