| Summary: | Map of the Pacific Ocean, being a later copy of the first English map of the Pacific Ocean published in 1675, and which was loosely based on Jansson's 1650 map of the Pacific but much updated with additional coverage of the Gulf Coast and the southeastern coast of the United States. California is depicted as an island off the coast of Nova Granada and Nova Hispania but the Americas are heavily annotated with placenames, particularly the west coast of both continents. The map features details based on discoveries such as States Land [i.e. New Zealand] discovered by Abel Tasman in 1642 with 9 placenames; in the northwest appears Iapan [i.e. Japan], the land of Eso [possibly Sakhalin] and Companies Land, and the Isles of Ladrones [i.e. northern Mariana Islands]. The map features the discovery of significant numbers of Pacific islands including those discovered by the Spanish explorer Hernand Galego in 1576 and Magellan in 1519 as well as those discovered by Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten in 1615-16. The map also features a limited part of Nova Guinea [i.e. New Guinea and Carpentaria conjoined] with 13 placenames as well as the southern coastline of Anthony Van Dieman's Land [i.e. Tasmania] with 8 place names. Decorative features include coloured outlines of land areas, but the title cartouche depicting examples of native costume, a compass rose, rhumb lines, and illustrations of 3 sailing ships and 2 whales are only in black and white.; Title in cartouche.; Plate 13 from: [Untitled atlas / John Seller]. London : s.n., [1690?].; Shirley, N. Maps in the atlases of the British Library M.SELL-4a; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-t1133.
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