Lot 176: ARNOLD COLOM (1624-1668)

[The Pacific Ocean] Mar del Zur Hispanis Mare Pacificum. [Amsterdam: 1658]. Hand-coloured engraved map, highlighted in gold. Elaborate title cartouche with figures, and cartouche surmounted by arms, with dedication to Georgio Backer.

An important chart of the Pacific from Colom's sea-atlas, Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Wereldt. The Latin edition, Ora maritima orbis universi, was first published in 1654, and a Dutch edition reissued in 1658, with a third edition containing this additional map appearing in the same year. Koeman IV, A.Col 3 (18); Tooley 309.

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