Lot 297
  • 297

West Indies--Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de.

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700 - 900 GBP
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Description

  • Description del destricto del audiencia de la Espagnola. [Madrid: 1601], 206 x 215mm., double-page engraved map, small areas of paper loss in South America infilled

Literature

Burden, Mapping of North America 133

Catalogue Note

One of the most detailed of Herrera’s maps, based on the manuscripts of Juan López de Velasco, from the 1570s; the map focuses on the Spanish possessions in the West Indies with Florida and northern South America.