Subject: Western Hemisphere
Period: 1607 (circa)
Publication: Atlas Minor
Color: Hand Color
Size:
7.6 x 5.9 inches
19.3 x 15 cm
Charming reduced version of the Americas map Hondius engraved for Gerard Mercator's folio atlas. It is a combination of various cartographic sources. North America is greatly elongated with a Plancius type depiction of Newfoundland and a protruding Virginian coast. South America is shown with a more or less correct western coastline and there is a large southern continent incorporating New Guinea and Tierra del Fuego. Decorated with sea monsters, sailing ships, and a strapwork title cartouche. Latin text on verso.
References: Burden #153.
Condition: A
Damp stains at paper edges. Remnants of hinge tape on verso.
