“Fretum le Maire”

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Untitled charts of the Pacific, New Guinea, and the Strait of Le Maire.

SPILBERGEN, Joris van; and Jacob Le MAIRE
[Lugduni Batauorum,
apud Nicolaum à Geelkercken,
1619].
Double-page engraved chart.
155 by 435mm. (6 by 17.25 inches).
22667

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A detailed chart of the route taken by Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten from Porto Desire across the Pacific to New Guinea, with insets of their route along the north coast of New Guinea, and through the strait that was named for him: "Fretum le Maire", to the south of Tierra del Fuego.

Published in Joris van Spilbergen's 'Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae navigationum' (1619). In 1614 the VOC enjoined Spilbergen to sail with six vessels to the Molucca...

bibliography:

bibliography:

Allen, 'North American Exploration: A New World Disclosed', 1997; Suarez, 'Early Mapping of Southeast Asia', 1999, pages 202-204; Zaide, 'Philippine Political and Cultural History: The Philippines since pre- Spanish Times', 1957.

provenance:

provenance:

Provenance: Freycinet family archives