Americae sive novi orbis nova descriptio. Amsterdam: c.1628. Double-page engraved map, 356 x 491 mm, verso blank, with ornamental cartouche, ships and sea creature, on verso. Margins brief, expert repair around centerfold. Framed. RARE SECOND STATE. The third of Ortelius's plates of "one of the most famous and easily recognizable maps of America." This example in the extremely rare second state with date removed from bottom right and the addition of Terra del Fuego and Fretum le Maire. Burden traced only 7 examples. Burden Mapping of North America 39/64; Tooley Mapping of America p 320-324; Wheat Northwest Coast 80.
Americae sive novi orbis nova descriptio. Amsterdam: c.1628. Double-page engraved map, 356 x 491 mm, verso blank, with ornamental cartouche, ships and sea creature, on verso. Margins brief, expert repair around centerfold. Framed. RARE SECOND STATE. The third of Ortelius's plates of "one of the most famous and easily recognizable maps of America." This example in the extremely rare second state with date removed from bottom right and the addition of Terra del Fuego and Fretum le Maire. Burden traced only 7 examples. Burden Mapping of North America 39/64; Tooley Mapping of America p 320-324; Wheat Northwest Coast 80.
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