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Item Details
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| Author: |
Ortelius, Abraham |
| Title: |
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio |
| Place: |
Antwerp |
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| Date: |
1587-[1612] |
| Item # : |
167337 |
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| Sale Number |
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321 |
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127 |
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| The Cartography of California, 16th-19th Centuries: Maps from a Private Collection |
| Sale Date |
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11/17/2005 |
| Price realized |
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$ 3162 |
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| Description: |
| Copper-engraved map, hand-colored. 35.5X38.5 cm. (14x15¼"). |
| The third of the plates that Ortelius used for maps of the American continent, the first two appearing in 1570 and 1579, respectively, easily identifiable by the absence of the bulge in the west coast of South America, also by the many additional ships in the oceans. This is the only one of the three plates with Ortelius' imprint, in which he states he is the author. Burden remarks that "at first glance not much appears to have been altered, but close inspection reveals a great deal. The Solomon Islands are here shown for the first time since they were discovered in 1568 by Alvaro de Mendaña. On the west coast of North America some new nomenclature appears, R. de los estrechos, C. Mendocino, and California. The most important introductions on the east coast are the Indian name WINGANDEKOA, and just to the north an inlet. They both originate from the unsuccessful English attempts at colonising the Outer Banks of present day North Carolina. It has been suggested that the inlet could be the first depiction of Chesapeake Bay on a printed map..." The present example has Spanish text on the reverse, with the third from last line beginning "tarios de la cosas...," indicating it was from the 1612 edition (or possibly c.1640). The Spanish language issues seem to be rarer than those in other languages. Burden 64. |
| Condition: |
| Paper darkened, wear around edges, some soiling, rubbing and wear along centerfold with verso paper reinforcement; good to very good. |
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