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Copper-engraved map, hand-colored; uncolored pictorial cartouche. 40.5x51.5 cm. (16x20¼").

Second state of this important chart covering the southern tip of Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica and Hispaniola, issued by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valk. Its is one of the of the first Dutch maps to feature the region on a large scale, due to the importance of the "Canaal van Bahama" to the transport of Spanish gold and silver from the New World. It is based on the rare Hessel Gerritsz chart of 1631, with the addition of five place names in Florida. Jansson also depicts a spurious mountain range in Florida, taken from the much earlier de Bry map. Burden 291, state 2.