Brazil, Pernambuco, Natal, Cabo S. Agostinho, Janssonius, 1657, Capitaniae de Cirii et Parnambuco

Large folio sized rare 17th century map of part of the Brazilian coast in the North East, orientated to the west. The map appeared in Volume 5 of Jansson's Atlas Novus, under the separate title Atlas Maritimus.

The map provides a high detailed treatment of the the Brazilian Coastline with Natal (Rio Araguaia) on the right, Rio Paraiba in the center and Cabo St. Agostinho on the left, along with a fine decorative cartouche, sailing ships, compass rose and rhumb lines. Jansson's Sea Atlas was the first of the mid-17th Century Dutch Sea Atlases and was followed shortly thereafter by separate atlases of sea charts by Jacobsz, Lootsman, Theunisz, Goos, Doncker, Van Keulen and a number of other specialty Dutch chart makers in the second half of the 17th Century.

Because of the importance and expense associated with Jansson's later atlases, the maps from the Atlas Maritimus are relatively scarce on the market and are highly collected as the first obtainable Dutch Sea Charts of many regions around the world.

Published in 1657 in Amsterdam by J. Janssonius in ´Atlantis maioris quinta pars, orbem maritimum... editio novissima. Amstelodami: apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1657´

Reference: Koeman Me 165. Nordenskjold 116 [4]

Very good condition. Clear print, strong paper. Reverse side blank. Small repairs in the margins (area of the central fold), not affecting the image.

Image 44x54,5cm, sheet 51,5x60cm