Carta Particolare della Parte Ocidentale della Nuova Spagnia, e del la California

This uncommon chart covers the western coast of Mexico from the southern tip of Baja California to beyond Acapulco. Features excellent detail along the coastlines with numerous place names, inlets, soundings, and anchorages. Extends inland to Mexico City, but the interior is otherwise mostly blank. The chart is elegantly engraved with fine calligraphy, a bold title cartouche, sailing ship and compass rose by the Florentine craftsman Arnoldo Lucini.  Robert Dudley was the first Englishman to produce a sea atlas, Dell Arcano del Mare (Secrets of the Sea). Dudley, a skilled mathematician and navigator, was exiled from England and settled in Florence where his atlas was published. He introduced a totally new style for sea charts in the atlas with only lines of latitude and longitude and no rhumb lines. The charts were meticulously compiled from original sources and were both scientific and accurate for the time. This important atlas was the first sea atlas of the whole world; the first to