Fretum Magellannicum, und dessen eigentliche Beschreibung. So die hollender durch Schifft und auch der leng beschrieben

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Fretum Magellannicum, und dessen eigentliche Beschreibung. So die hollender durch Schifft und auch der leng beschrieben

Chart of the Strait of Magellan, showing Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. Cartographic elements include profile of the geography of the strait, sea banks or shoals, scale, dividers, and compass rose. Includes four native American figures: a Patagonian giant, a woman giving a bird to a child, a man wearing feathered headdress and garment, and a woman wearing a cloak. Also includes penguin, snail, spear, bow and arrow. Items in image lettered for identification in a key below. De Bry’s Grand Voyages, an illustrated collection of accounts of the Americas, defined the early European picture of the New World.

ca. 1612

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Bry, de