Chart showing Jacob leMaire's voyage of 1615-1616.

Original copper engraved folding chart of Jacob LeMaire?s route from Cape Horn to the north coast of Australia, with inserted maps of Cape Horn and New Guinea. Jacob Le Maire (ca1585 -1616) was a Dutch mariner, born in Antwerp, who circumnavigated the earth in 1615-16. He discovered the strait between Tierra del Fuego and Staten Island, Argentina; that strait is now named the Le Maire Strait in his honour. He was the first person to round Cape Horn, proving that Tierra del Fuego was not a continent, by finding a new route to the Pacific and the Spice Islands. They followed the north coasts of New Ireland and New Guinea and visited adjacent islands. Published in -Specvlvm Orientalis Occidentalisqve Indiae Navigationvm-