b'45291HISTORICAL MAPS sought after sea atlases of the 17th293Century. Dudley, an Englishman, producedDIDIER ROBERT DE VAUGONDY this exquisite work while living in[1723 - 1786]291 Florence. He laboured for decades beforeArchipel Des Indes Orientales, qui ROBERT DUDLEY [1574 - 1649]finally releasing the first edition when hecomprend Les Isles De La Sonde, A rare chart of the Pacific was 73 years old. Moluques et Philippines, tirees des Cartes Carta particolare del mare del Sur che$7501,000 du Neptune Oriental . . .1750comincia con lIsole di Salamone e finiscie[Paris, circa 1755] some hand-colouringcon la costa di Lima nel Peru . . . 292 51 x 66cm (peripheral faults)[Florence, 1646] PAUL DE RAPIN DE THOYRAS $200300 54 x 85cm (in two sheets which areDUNKIRK A strong Seaport Town in the joined) Earldom of Flanders in the Low Countries The Pacific from the Solomon Islands tosubject to the French.the South American Coastline (centred[London, 1746]on Peru). A striking sea chart of thehand-colourednorthern coast of part of the South40 x 50.5cm.Pacific, reaching from the Solomons toA detailed plan of the city of Dunkerque, the central Peruvian Coastline, with notesincluding fortifications, town plan, roads, in the south referencing the unknown andfarms, rivers, and a decorative compass uncertain southern coastline (includingrose. From Tindals continuation of Rapins a reference to Terra Australis Incognita).History of England.Includes a sailing ship and compass rose, with a number of notes in Italian$100150 regarding prevailing winds and currents. The chart locates the Solomon Islands in the northwest, with other islands far to the east, including:I. Incognite (likely part of the Tuamoto Islands)Isole Due (Two Groups Islands, in the Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia)I. di S. Filippo (likely part of the Tuamoto Islands)I. di Gio Ferdinando (Juan Fernandez Island, Chile, discovered by Le Maire and Schoten in 1617)Jacques Le Maire and Willem Schouten were commissioned to find a new route to the Pacific and the Spice Islands to avoid the trading monopoly of the Dutch East India Company and to find the Southern Continent (Terra Australis). The chart appeared in Dudleys Arcano del Mare, one of the rarest and most highly288283'