Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Particular map of Philippine Islands and of Luzon

Barcode: 
3687800354463E
Title: 
Particular map of Philippine Islands and of Luzon
Original Title: 
Carta particolare dell'Isole Fillipine è di Luzon
Other Title: 
Carta particolare delle Isole Filippine è di Luzon
Contributor: 
Dudley, Robert, Sir, 1574-1649, cartographer
Contributor: 
Lucini, Antonio Francesco, 1605-1640, engraver
Contributor: 
Onofri, Francesco, fl. 1631-1679, printer
Category: 
Atlas
Type: 
Printed
Language: 
Italian
Language: 
Portuguese
Language: 
Spanish
Create Year: 
[1647]
Page No.: 
10
Scale: 
Scale indeterminable ; Mercator proj.
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
48 x 37 cm, on sheet 57 x 42 cm
Note: 
Robert Dudley was the illegitimate son of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. In 1594, Dudley led an expedition to the West Indies, of which he wrote an account. After unsuccessfully trying to establish his legitimacy in court, he left England and converted to Catholicism, taking up residence in Florence where he served the Grand Dukes of Tuscany in their efforts to rid the Mediterranean of Piracy. There he worked as a noted shipbuilder and designed and published the work 'Dell'Arcano del Mare', the first maritime atlas to cover the whole world, the first Sea Atlas published by and Englishman and the first atlas to utilize the Mercator Projection on a uniform basis. Its inclusion of winds and currents was also a monumental first. This is a map of the Sulu Sea with the southern part of the Island of Luzon (Lucon) on the upper part and the northern part of the Mindanao on the bottom with all the islands in the middle being the center of the map. Soundings are given for navigational aid in-between them.
Note: 
Original is a copperplate printed map in the second part of the third volume of '[Dell'Arcano del Mare]'.
Note: 
On the left bottom corner of the map: "A.F. Lucini fece."
Note: 
Underneath the title: "La longitu.ne comin.ca da l'Isola di Pico d'Asores."
Note: 
There is a sail ship on the Sulu Sea. A 32-point compass rose is on the map with a fleur-de-lis indicating north.
Note: 
Title inside strapwork cartouche.
Note: 
Bathymetric relief shown by soundings.
Note: 
Map with graticule.
Note: 
Title and notes in Italian with place names in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Reference: 
Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers, p. 395
Reference: 
Phillips, vol. 1, n.o 456, p. 203-216
Subject: 
Atlas
Geographic Area: 
Philippine Sea
Geographic Area: 
Luzon (Philippines)
Geographic Area: 
Philippines
Relation Note: 
D'Asia carta X
Pub Title: 
[Dell'Arcano del Mare].
Pub Author: 
Dudley, Robert, Sir, 1574-1649
Pub Year: 
[1647]
Pub location: 
[In Firenze]
Provenance: 
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Provenance: 
http://id.bnportugal.gov.pt/bib/catbnp/279649
Provenance Call No.: 
C.A. 131 A.
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