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Title: Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgó le Maire exactissima delineatio
Creator: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638, cartographer
Gryp, Dirck, engraver
Contributor: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638, publisher
Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Museum Book Store
Date Created and/or Issued: 1631
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Kashnor notes, "With the representation of a gigantic Patagonian with a Spaniard beside him, the latter's head being on a level with the Patagonian's waist." Kashnor dates as ca. 1635. Based on pagination and language on verso, Van der Krogt dates to 1631 (9950:2A.2). Cartouche: framed. Figures of Patagonian with Spaniard, penguins, sea lions. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miliaria. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: Printed description: Fretum le Maire; Fretum Magellanicum. Description in Latin. MMMMMMM. MS note: 937.
Type: image
Extent: 1 map ; 38 x 49 cm., sheet 45 x 55 cm.
Identifier: 105:937 M
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/3317
Language: Latin
Time Period: [1631]
Place: South America
Tierra del Fuego
W 75°
W 65°/S 52°
S 56°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, June 7, 1927.

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