The FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, “In 1588 Anthony Ashley, clerk to the Privy Council, was commissioned by Sir Christopher Hatton to prepare an English language version of … Waghenaer’s … ‘Spieghel der Zeevaerdt’ … For the English version new plates were engraved in England by Theodore de Bry, Jodocus Hondius, Augustine Ryther and Johannes Rutlinger … The plates were later acquired by Jodocus Hondius, who published another edition in 1605”. The popularity of this work in its various language editions that this form of coastal sea atlas became universally known as “waggoners”. This example of the very rare English edition bears the bookplate of the Earl of Shaftesbury who owned Wimborne in Dorset. The prior owners were the descendants of the family of Anthony Ashley although he did not live there himself. Lord Wardington suggested that this might well be his own copy. Provenance: with the bookplate of Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury; bookplate of Harrison D. Horblit; sold by private treaty to H.P. Kraus, Catalogue 168, item 199 for $65,000 to Lord Wardington. Koeman IV, Wag 13; NMM 184; Shirley, British Library M.WAG-2a.