Descriptio ac delineatio geographica detectionis freti, : sive, Transitus ad occasum, suprà terras Americanas in Chinam atq[ue] Iaponem ducturi, recens investigati ab M. Henrico Hudsono Anglo. : Item, Narratio ser.mo regi Hispaniæ facta, super tractu, in quinta orbis terrarum parte, cui Australiæ incognitæ nomen est, recens detecto, per Capitaneum Petrum Ferdinandez de Quir. : Vnà cum descriptione terræ Samoiedarum [et] Tingoesiorum, in Tartaria ad ortum Freti VVaygats sitæ, nuperq; imperio Moscovitarum subactæ
A 1612 Amsterdam geographical compendium published by Hesselius Gerardus, collecting accounts of Henry Hudson's northwest passage search, a Spanish report on Terra Australis, and a description of Samoyed and Tingoesian lands in Siberia, made for merchants and scholars. Its pictures are small woodcut and engraved views of ships, reindeer sledges with archers, and hemispheric and regional maps, offering a designer compact, period-authentic cartographic and maritime motifs.
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