Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio

by A. Ortelius

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14 x 19 ½ inches, Fine old hand color; excellent condition. An excellent example of the second plate see below of this important map. It was the first map of the Americas to appear in a modern atlas, Schwartz and one that “had a great influence on the future cartography of the New World” Burden . When this map was issued, the coastal areas of the North America had still been only partially explored, and Europeans

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