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Americas--Ortelius, Abraham.
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Description
- Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio. [Antwerp, 1587, but c.1600], 353 x 486mm., double-page engraved map, hand-coloured, short tear in margin
Literature
Burden, Mapping of North America 64
Catalogue Note
The third of Ortelius’ atlas maps of the Americas, and the only one for which he claimed the credit, with the notable correction of the ‘potato-shaped’ bulge in South America.