et ab Isaaco Massa descripta est. Relief shown by shading. Title runs across top. Imprint taken from atlas. Decorative cartouche with descriptive text; ships, sea monsters. Shows inhabited areas. Massa's rendition of the Siberian coast represented an advance in geography and for decades remained the only map of this region. It was subsequently copied by Mercator and Hondius, Jan Janssonius and Willem Blaeu. Appears in de Bry's Petits voyages (Part X), 1613.
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Massa, Isaac, 1587-1635, Gerritsz., Hessel, approximately 1581-1632, Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611, and Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623
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