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Auction 120, Lot 78

"Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio", Munster/Petri

Subject: Western Hemisphere

Period: 1588 (circa)

Publication: Cosmographey

Color: Black & White

Size:
14 x 12.5 inches
35.6 x 31.8 cm
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This handsome woodcut is based on Abraham Ortelius' classic map. It features the huge bulge in the southwest coastline of South America, the extensive western coastline of North America, and the great southern continent, here called Meridies Terra de Fuego. A village of Quivira and the Sierra Nevada are located in present-day California. Inland is the kingdom of Quivira with those of Anian and Tolm to the north and east. Above the map are two elongated ovals of gothic German text and above that, in the upper margin a German title, "Die newen Inseln so hinder Hispania Gegen Orient bey dem Landt Indie Gelegen." German text on verso.

References: Burden #67.

Condition: B

Binder's trim into neatline at the bottom. Some small repairs on the verso.

Estimate: $1,300 - $1,500

Sold for: $1,000

Closed on 7/18/2007

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