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A description of the sea coastes of East Frysland with all their bankes sandes and bekons
Bound sheet. Hand coloured engraving. Scale: [circa 1:400,000 (bar)]. North at 200 degrees. Bar scales are in Dutch, English and Spanish leagues. Additional places : Ems, Jade. Contains eleven coastal profiles. The chart is decorated with four ships and one sea creature. Buoys and beacons shown.
A chart from Anthony Ashley's English edition of the 'Mariners Mirrour'. Lord Howard of Effingham ordered Waghenaer's sea atlas, 'Die Spieghel der Zeevaerdt', to be translated. It was so popular that 'waggoner' became the English term for a book of charts.
A chart from Anthony Ashley's English edition of the 'Mariners Mirrour'. Lord Howard of Effingham ordered Waghenaer's sea atlas, 'Die Spieghel der Zeevaerdt', to be translated. It was so popular that 'waggoner' became the English term for a book of charts.
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Object Details
| ID: | PBD8264(45) |
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| Type: | Chart |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Waghenaer, Lucas Jansz; Hondius, Jodocus |
| Date made: | 1588 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Printed area 51 cm x 33 cm |
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