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 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. In 1588 Sir Christopher Hatton commissioned the clerk to the Privy Council in England, Anthony Ashley, to prepare an English language version. For this a new series of plates were engraved in London by Dutch émigrés including Theadore de Bry, Jodocus Hondius and Augustine Ryther amongst others. Barely 20 examples of the atlas survive to this day, a very rare work. This particular map is a fine example of the south west coast of England from Lands End to Plymouth. The plate was engraved by Theodore de Bry bearing his imprint lower left. It is an example from the exceedingly rare second edition published in 1605 in Amsterdam. Hondius had later acquired the plates and published them with some improvements. One of these was the addition of Dutch text to the maps, however in this example there is no Dutch text present. This therefore is an example of the first state of the map from the second edition. Koeman only cites TWO KNOWN COPIES of the atlas: University Library, Lund and a private American collection. Koeman IV Wag 13 no. 20 & Wag 14; Quixley (1966) no. 3; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).