Von Rappholt's Map of Gotaland, Sweden - Showing Gothenburg, home of the SOIC Maps of Asia Mendaña's first and second voyages

Mendaña's first and second voyages (1568 and 1595)

from whom he inherited a deep passion for geography and mapmaking

who published his account of travels in the far north as a ship’s surgeon in 1671

from which it seems to me to differ a little

Historically

Von Rappholt's Map of Gotaland, Sweden - Showing Gothenburg, home of the SOIC Maps of Asia Mendaña's first and second voyagesVON RAPPHOLT, Bengt Gustav (1717 1762). Southwestern Sweden (Part of Gotaland). Manuscript map with original hand color in full. Wenersborg, 1743. 12 3 4" x 38 1 4" sheet, 22" x 48" framed. A Rare and Elegant 18th century Map of Southwestern Sweden. This elegant map, with its delicate watercolor wash denoting the North Sea and flawless calligraphy, focuses primarily on the Gotaland provinces of Bohuslan and Dalsland, which appears at center. The map