Single sheet, (13 ¼ x 15 ¾ inches, full margins showing the platemark). Fine engraved map of the southern tip of South America showing the Strait of Magellan, with a large compass rose with north oriented to the right, the title within a strapwork cartouche and the large distance scale within a scroll on the lower left (old central fold, edges browned). First French edition, first published in Dutch in 1625. One of the earliest to focus on the region, this highly detailed map of the southern tip of South America shows a clearly labelled Strait of Magellan, Strait of Le Maire, and "Tierra del Fuogo." The fine compass rose indicates north to the right. This map features the latest discoveries of Dutch explorers Isaac Le Maire and Willem Schouten, including the Strait of Le Maire and Cape Horn. De Laet was born in Antwerp but in 1585, the family, like thousands of Flemish Protestants, fled to the northern Netherlands. After studying philosophy in Leiden the young de Laet traveled to Londo