Guiana: between the Provinces of Rio de las Amazonas using the Rivers Yuiapari e Orinoque



Author: Cartographer Gerritz, Hessel

Year of making: 1625

Source: Surinamica [University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam]

Copyright: University of Amsterdam

Scale: approx 1:7.500.000

Dimensions: 28 x 35.5 cm

Literature reference: Johannes de Laet, New description of West Indies. Leyden: Isaack Elzevier, 1625 and Johannes de Laet, Beschrijvinghe of West Indies. 2nd Dr Leyden: Elsevier, 1630.



Hessel Gerritsz (1581-1632)

Amsterdam cartographer and mapmaker some time boss of the VOC, provided the West India Company of the card. This important publication for inclusion in his''Description of West Indies'', from 1625. The chart is slightly smaller, but also businesslike and yet more comprehensive than the map of Jodocus Hondius from 1599. Hondius' son (1594-1629) saw that, apparently because he also copied this chart for its spending of the Atlas of Mercator.

Source: http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/nl/items/SURI01:610/&p=1&i=2&st=Gerritsz,%20Hessel&sc=%28Gerritsz%20%20Hessel%20*%29/