America Aurea Pars Alter Mundi Auctoribus

by Gerard Valk, Leonard Valk, c.

$1,750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Highly decorative map of North and South America showing California as an island and here with full period hand colouring. This decorative map by the Valk brothers is after a similar map by Carol Allard, first published circa 1696. Cartographically, both Allard and the Valks borrow heavily from the De Wit map of 1675, naming the Great Lakes, showing California as an island and with a Terra Esonis and Fretum Anian in the northwest. Interestingly, the Valks here re-issue the

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