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Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the second copperplate of Ortelius'.
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- Maker :
- ORTELIUS, A.
- Place :
- Antwerp
- Date :
- 1579
- Color :
- Colored
- Height mm.:
- 355
- Width mm.:
- 495
- Condition :
- Excellent condition. Latin text on verso. According to Van den Broecke published in 1579.
- Bibliography :
- Burden, America 39.
- Seller's ref. :
- 35810
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This is the second copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An important map because of its influence on the European perceptions of America. When the map was first published by Abraham Ortelius at Antwerp in 1570, it was the best map of the Americas available.
It was in fact the first of its kind to achieve-wide circulation through an atlas. Lower California is correctly shown as a peninsula and America is separated from Asia in the north west. In this state the name of the Azores corrected to Las Açores .
Gelriae, Cliviae, Finitimorumque Locorum Verissima..
East to the top. Fine map of Geldria and Limburg, prepared by Christian s'Grooten. Very fine title cartouche lower right with painter's utensils around the cartouche.Dare to go in Black. All early maps were printed in black and white, and many were kept that way for a long time. A black and white map in an early and strong impression is a rarity nowadays, being so many examples recently colored up!
$250
Maker : ORTELIUS, A.
Place : Antwerp
Date : 1598
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Carte Generale des Dixet Sept Provinces des Pays Bas.
Rare map of the Low Countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg after Tassin and offered for sale by the publisher N. Berey.
$650
Maker : BEREY, N. / TASSIN, C.
Place : Paris
Date : 1634
Town of Somers.
Fine lithographed map of the town of Somers. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the occupations and physical locations of the various tradesmen in each village from Beer's famous county atlas "Atlas of New York and vicinity," "a documentary record of nineteenth-century life and delightful specimens of American folk art." F. W. Beers, along with other members of his family, were among the leading county atlas publishers in the period immediately follo...
$90
Maker : DE BEERS, F.W.
Place : New York
Date : 1867
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[Murder of Dominican monks in Cumana or Cubagua Island].
Murder of Dominican monks in Cumana or Cubagua Island in what is now Venezuela. Scarce print (150x177mm.) on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's "Newe Welt Vnd Americanische Historien/ Jnhaltende Warhafftige vnd volkommene Beschreibungen Aller West-Indianischen Landschafften…" published by M.Merian in 1631.
$80
Maker : GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY, T.
Place : Frankfurt, M.Merian
Date : 1633
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