WYTFLIET, CORNELIS VAN Granata Nova et California.
[Louvain or Douai: circa 1597-1611]. Copper-engraved map, without text on verso. Plate marks 9 1/8 x 11 1/4 inches (23 x 29 cm ), with larger margins. Marginal spotting, four small matching wormholes in the upper margin along the fold.

Sold Bonhams, 18 February 2007, lot 40.

A dark impression of Wytfliet's Granata Nova et California, "the first printed map devoted to California and the south-west of the present day United States" (Burden). The map was first issued in 1597 in his Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum, and while no other states are known, the map was included in subsequent editions of the atlas through the Douai edition of 1611. Largely derived from Spanish sources, an interesting feature of the map is the depiction of the fabled seven cities of the Cibola ("Septem ciuitatum Patria") shown surrounding a large lake which flows into the Gulf of California. Many of the town names are derived from Coronado's lost map. Burden 106; Schwartz & Ehrenberg plate 41; Heckrotte 7; Wheat 29; Wagner 188.

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

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