Medina, Pedro de.

Folio (289 x 200mm.), woodcut on title, half title with woodcut arms of the king of Spain, woodcut map of the New World, woodcuts and initials throughout, modern stiff vellum [ Martin Abad 656C; cf. Burden 14, Palau 159685 and Medina BHA 198], slightly browned

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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The woodcut map of the New World was first published in Pedro de Medina's Arte de navegar (Valladolid, 1545) and was subsequently used in the first and later editions of the present work, cut in half to enable it to accompany smaller format publications. ''Medina's knowledge of the New World was first hand, having travelled with Cortés... This map depicts the trade routes to and from Spain and her possessions, by the use of ships heading south-westerly on the outward bound journey and returning via the Gulf Stream to the north-east... Central America and particularly the Isthmus of Panama are shown remarkably accurately, and the Yucatan is shown correctly as a peninsula'' (Burden). The illustrations also include woodcut views of Seville and Granada. This is a reissue of the 1566 third edition with a new title-page.