Hand-colored engraved map of the Americas, 560 x 473 mm sheet. Two cartouches, the lower-left without text, Latin text on verso. (Tear near Nueva Espana, paper reinforcements to verso, light chipping especially to left edge, outer border has been partially hand-drawn to lower left and upper right corners).

FIRST STATE of Hondius' map with no text in the cartouche lower left. According to Burden: "Hondius' beautifully engraved map of North America had greater influence than any other to date in perpetuating the theory of California as an island…Cartographically, this map is a careful composition of many different sources" including maps by Henry Briggs (1625), John Smith (1616), Hessel Gerritsz (c.1631), and Thomas James (1633). Burden 245; Tooley, p.113.