Rare First Nautical Chart of Europe by Waghenaer, 1584: Portolan Rhumb Lines, Unusually Round Iceland Finish:Map or something more personal)

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It’s a striking statement for interiors—especially alongside rattan or teak

surrounded by vineyards and poplar-lined banks

A prodigy who exhibited at the Royal Academy in his teens

serving as a reference for scholars and the educated public of the time

Rare First Nautical Chart of Europe by Waghenaer, 1584: Portolan Rhumb Lines, Unusually Round Iceland Finish:Map or something more personal)Universe Europe maritime eiusque navigationis descriptio is the commanding title of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaers pioneering sea chart, issued in 1584 at the dawn of Europes oceanic enterprises. It assembles the coasts of the British Isles and Scandinavia, the stormy North Sea, the Spanish Sea of the western Mediterranean, the littoral of North Africa, and the open reaches of the Atlantic into a single navigational picture. A dense web of rhumb lines