Description: This is an extremely rare print / copperplate engraving originates from: 'Kort en waerachtigh Verhael van 'gheene seeckere vijf Schepen van Rotterdam in 't jaer 1598 den 27 Junij nae de Straet Magaljanes varende ... (Account of the voyage to the Strait of Magellan by 5 Dutch ships from Rotterdam on 27 june 1598 under captain Sebald de Weert and others...), which originates from the monumental work by Isaac Commelin (1598-1676) on VOC voyages: 'Begin ende voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Companie....', published by Joannes Janssonius, Amsterdam, 1646.
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