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Southeastern United States--Ortelius, Abraham.
Estimate
800 - 1,000 GBP
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Description
- Peruviae Auriferae Regionis; La Florida; Guastecan. [Antwerp, 1584, but c.1600], 333 x 465mm., 3 maps on one double-page engraved mapsheet, German text, contemporary hand colour, small repaired tear
Literature
Cumming, Southeast in Early Maps, 5
Catalogue Note
This sheet bears three of the very small number of maps published in the sixteenth century based on Spanish manuscript sources, each a particularly significant delineation of its region. The one devoted to 'Florida', is the earliest printed map devoted to the American southeast, which Cumming described as “one of the half-dozen most important mother maps of southeastern North America” (p.12).