Insula Mathan

Description

hand-coloured copper engraving.

EXTREMELY RARE map from “Sechste Theil. Kurtze, Warhafftige Relation…”, pl.6, First edition; plate without page or plate number identifies: First Edition! (as here). Levinus Hulsius or Levin Hulsius [1546 in Ghent, East-Flanders, Belgium; 1606 in Frankfurt am Main] was a maker and dealer of fine scientific instruments; publisher and printer; linguist and lexicographer; wrote extensively on the construction of geometrical instruments. Although he was born in Flanders he lived and worked in the Netherlands and Germany. He compiled an extensive collection of accounts of explorers’ voyages, published ultimately in twenty-six parts. 8 years after de Bry began the publication of his Great Voyages, stimulated by the success of de Bry’s work, Hulsius began the publication of a similar collection in quarto. Hulsius is credited with having exercised better judgment in his selections and translations than de Bry.