Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer (c.1553-1606) was one of many Dutchmen who sailed the trading waters from Holland as far afield as Spain and the Baltic Sea. He retired from the sea in 1579 and began production of a series of charts using the knowledge he had gained. Part one of the ‘Spieghel der Zeevaerdt’ was published to critical acclaim in 1583, the second part followed in 1585. The book is the first printed sea atlas ever recorded. They are the first modern published sea charts and were engraved by the van Deutecom brothers. They were both functional and of great artistic merit. Campbell states “When Waghenaer published his ‘Spieghel der Zeevaerdt’ in 1583-84, he was breaking new ground in a number of ways. Nobody before had combined in one volume the charts, coastal profiles and sailing directions that any captain not navigating entirely from memory, or luck, would have required”

This chart covers the coast of Normandy and includes the Channel Islands and is in the most desirable and extremely rare FIRST STATE with title in Dutch only. A later edition in 1585 bears an extra title in Latin so the first state is particularly rare. Koeman (1967-70) IV p. 472 no. 5A.