Description
Russia, Vaygach Island, Northern Ice sea; Joan Blaeu - I. ordinum vulgo Staten Eyland - 1659
Contemporary coloured copper engraving of the island below Nova Zembla. With characters and a polar bear.
Dimensions: 17 x 25 cm.
Condition: good. Cut sheet. Contemporary coloured. Spanish text. Verso with map of "I. Mauritius".
Copper engraving appeared in; "Nuevo Atlas o Teatro del Mundo (...) Amsterdam Joan Blaeu 1659.
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