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. Indeed of these only 7 are in early colour as here. This particular map is a fine example of the south coast of England from Poole, Dorset to Dover. The plate was engraved by de Bry bearing his imprint lower left. There are some manuscript crossed bones in the lower margin for good measure! Kingsley (1982) App. II no. 3; Koeman IV Wag 13 no. 22; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).