Jannson (Jan) Mar del Zur Hispanis Mare Pacificum

Jansson (Jan)Mar del Zur Hispanis Mare Pacificum, FIRST EDITION, first issue, copper engraved map, showing west coast of North and South America with California as an island, outlined in colour, decorative title cartouche featuring cherubs and male figures, scale also decorated with cherubs, Latin text on verso, central vertical fold, slight toning and foxing, small repairs to verso, overall size 485 x 590mm, [Burden 292; McLaughlin 11; Potter p.129; Wagner 359.] Amsterdam, c.1650. *** The earliest sea chart of the Pacific to appear in a Dutch atlas. and the first map of the whole Pacific to show California as an island, with ‘Terra Incognita’ to the North and a string of islands stretching across the Pacific.