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Merian map of America
Merian map of America
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Author: Merian, Matthaus
Title: America Noviter Delineata
Place Published: Frankfurt
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Date Published: 1638
Description:


Copper-engraved map. 27.6x35.7 cm. (10Ā¾x14").



Map of the Americas, a reduced version of Hondius' map of 1631, with inset of Greenland. There are two sea monsters and two detailed sailing ships in the oceans, and the geographical peculiarities include a large western U.S. lake draining into the Gulf of California ("Mar Vermeo"), a large lake in Guiana, etc. California is in its pre-island configuration. Unlike many Merian maps, this is actually signed "M. Merian fecit" in the plate at lower right. The map was first issued in the 1638 edition of Neuwe Archontoligica Cosmica (the German translation of Pierre D'Avity's Les Empires du Monde), and was also issued in the later editions of 1646 and 1695. Burden 251, plate 251; Wagner, Northwest Coast, 329.

Condition
Quite clean from being washed, Ā½" splits at top and bottom centerfold affecting margin only. Very good.
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Merian map of America

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