Scarce first issue of Jansson’s chart of the Pacific

Half-a-century after Ortelius Jansson published his chart of the Pacific in the 'Waterwereld', or Volume V of the 'Atlas Novus', described by Koeman as the 'first sea-atlas (in the real sense of the word) printed in the Netherlands'. With the 'islands' of Korea and California, a 'Terra Incognita' filling the North Pacific, Australia shown only by the west coast of Carpentaria, and a chain of islands stretching from Cape Horn half-way across the Pacific, this map demonstrates how little was known away from the coastlines of America and Asia. This example is from the first state: a second state has the partial coastlines of Tasmania and New Zealand added, following the 1642 voyage of Abel Tasman.