Lot Details
Lot 55
ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
[Antwerp:] Ab. Ortelius, 1587 [but with the verso text indicating inclusion in an edition from 1603-1612]. Oretlius third plate, first state. Copper engraved map with hand-coloring, Latin text on verso with the third line from the bottom of the text starting with "Promittit & Postellus." 14 x 19 1/4 inches (35.5 x 49), with wider margins; framed. Minor abraded area in upper left margin away from image, a few marginal spots.
Oretelius' seminal map of the Americas, from the third plate with the western bulge of South America reduced. The map is further updated from the 1570 and 1579 plates now including the naming of California and the Native American name Wingandkoa on the east coast of North America and the inlet above it throught to be the first depiction of Chesapeake Bay. Burden 64.
C From the Personal Collection of Gary Combs
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