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Lot Description

[MAP]. ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-1598). Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio. Antwerp, 1573.

Engraved map with hand-coloring. Framed and double glazed, visible area 375 x 521 mm (unexamined out of frame). Decorative cartouche, galleons, sea monsters and ships, Latin text on verso. (Few minor spots of browning.)

FIRST EDITION, second state with the Azores corrected to "Las Acores," one of the rarer printings with only 75 copies published (from a total edition of 1750). Regarded as a "keystone map" which provides the best general picture of the settlement of the New World in the latter part of the sixteenth century" (Goss). According to Burden, "the most important introductions on the east coast is the Indian name WINGANDEKOA, and just to the north an inlet. They both originate from the unsuccessful English attempts at colonising the Outer Banks of present-day North Carolina. It has been suggested that the inlet could be the first depiction of Chesapeake Bay on a printed map." Burden 64; Goss 11; Van den Broecke Ort9 (1573L(A)2).

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