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WAGHENAER, L. J. Zee Kaerte van Bretaigne, Inhoudende die zee Custen, Bayen, Eylanden ende havenen tusschen Rouscou ende Groye. . Leiden, Plantin, 1580. col. Pale spotting. Coloured copy. Framed. 340 x 520 mm. Rare 3rd state nautical chart (7 bottom left), published in one of the first editions of Waghenaer's maritime atlas "Spiegel der Zeevaerdt" and engraved by Baptist and Johannes van Deutecom. It represents the west coast of Brittany, from Roscou (Roscoff) to Blauet (Blavet and Port-Louis). One may be surprised by the orientation of this map, but let us not forget that it is made for the sailor who sails. In this case, the sailor is in a west-southwest position and therefore the end of Brittany is at the bottom, Roscoff at the top left and Blavet at the top right. The sea is named "Die Groote Zee Oceanus", the great ocean sea. Very decorative, on the maritime side, we see two boats, three sea monsters, a compass rose and a compass on the scale presented by the compass on the scale presented by an animal (perhaps a fox). On the land side, various profiles very useful to navigators with many hills dotted with various animals: horse, goat, pig, sheep, cow and, in the middle of all this, a cartouche giving the name of the author, Lucas Jansz Waghenaer, the privilege for 10 years and the date 1580. 1" state: text of the profiles in Dutch; 2° state: at the top, an off-map text in Dutch; the profiles each have a letter from A to F with a Latin translation above the original Dutch text. Between the mainland and Ushant, the Hagles become Hagels, Halman becomes Halman heel with displacement. Finally, a box in the upper center where we discover the author under his latinized name: Luca Joes Aurigariu. 3rd state: a 7 in bottom left with two additions: Ras de fontenau and Glénant. Some vignettes of towns with roofs in addition. To notice on these three states that Vanes (Vannes) is placed at the west of the roadstead of Lorient and that Blavet is at the bottom of this same roadstead. Waghenaer's personal experiences as a pilot along the European coasts were used to compile the Spiegel der Zeevaerdt, the first edition of which was published in Dutch in Leiden in 1584/85 by Plantin. Although announced as published in 1584 according to Koeman, this edition was more likely printed in 1585 § Copy reproduced in Anciennes Cartes Marines de la Bretagne 1580-1800, Pl. N°1.