This is the original title of the first volume of the innovative work by Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer (circa 1533-1606), a helmsman and pilot from the Dutch town of Enkhuizen. This first printed, large-sized sailing manual with an extensive collection of seacharts started a new epoque in the history of nautical cartographie.

Waghenaers style, to draw the coastal line like the Portuguese did with a thin external line and to suggest the flat and high banks with inclined lines and obtain by these dark and light shadowing graphic effects, did involve a number of successors. Likewise often copied was his habit to show the harbours, port entrances and seatowns in a larger scale than the surrounding coastal ways on the map.

Over one century people copied and oriented themselves at this excellent and modern seachart atlas, in which each chart alternated with comments and descriptions. For a long time seacharts and sea-Atlases were simply called "Waghenaers" or in English "waggoners".