Engraved map of Mexico with hand-coloring 220 x 293 mm. (Two small marginal wormholes, tiny paper flaw just affecting portion of rule border, a few small stains.) Topographical features including the present-day Mississippi River, Italian text verso.

FIRST EDITION, second state, with plate-mark on the top edge, cross-hatching to the graduation marks in the border, and without the added names and features of the 1598 third state. One of the earliest obtainable maps of Mexico and the American Southwest. Ruscelli's map of New Spain is an enlargement of Giacomo Gastaldi's 1548 map, but here depicting the Yucatan as a peninsula, rather than an island.  Wagner NW Coast 48 (the map is "the same as No. 18 [i.e. the 1548 issue of the map] with trifling changes").