Lot 99
Waghenaer, Lucas Jansz
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 15 January 2014 at 11:00 GMT
£725
Description
A description of the coastes between Bamburgh & Aberdeine wherof Edenburgh is the chiefest marrttowne. [London : Charlewood, 1588], 370 x 535mm., framed and glazed
Footnote
Note: A Dutch master pilot, Lucas Jansz Waghenaer, published Spiegel der Zeevaerdt in 1584. This influential first sea-atlas comprised charts, sailing directions, coastal views and navigational tables of the European coasts from Gibraltar to North Cape. It was widely translated and after the English edition of 1588, titled The Mariners Mirrour, sea-atlases became known as 'waggoners'.
RSGS and Moir "The early maps of Scotland", vol. 2, 1983, p. 4.