Map of Brazil from 1630
This beautiful map was a collaboration between Hessel Gerritsz, official cartographer of the Dutch East India Company, and Johannes de Laet, director of the newly formed Dutch West India Company.
His maps of South America laid the foundations for many other cartographers.
The detail is limited to the coastline and includes the captaincies. The interior is filled with a large title cartouche and distance scales, and the map is further embellished with a compass rose, with north to the right of the map. “Provincia de Brasil cum Adiacentibus Provinciis”, Gerritsz/De Laet
Map of Brazil from 1630 – Historical Maps of Brazil
