Lot 294
  • 294

West Indies--Benzoni, Girolamo.

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3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • Occidentalis Americae partis, vel, earum regionum quas Christophorus Columbus primu[m] detexit. [Frankfurt-am-Main: Theodore de Bry, 1594], 333 x 443mm., folding engraved map, right hand margin with slight restoration, evidence of original folds and creases; plus one engraved plate from de Bry

Literature

Burden, Mapping of North America, 83

Catalogue Note

Finely engraved map of the Spanish possessions in the West Indies, Florida and northern South America, published in Part IV of de Bry’s Grands voyages. The plate from de Bry is an engraving of the Tupinamba Indians of Brazil (from Part II).