Lot Details
Lot 59
WYTFLIET, CORNELIS VAN Granata Nova et California.
[Louvain or Douai: circa 1597-1611]. Copper-engraved map with partial hand-coloring, without text on verso. 9 1/8 x 11 5/8 inches (23 x 29.4 cm ); framed. Two small patches on verso, one closing a very small puncture, minor marginal loss at lower left corner of sheet far from image.
Wytfliet's Granata Nova et Californiais "the first printed map devoted to California and the south-west of the present day United States" (Burden). The map was first issued in 1597 in his Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum, and while no other states are known, the map was included in subsequent editions of the atlas through the Douai edition of 1611. An interesting feature of the map, derived from a Spanish source, is the depiction of the fabled seven cities of the Cibola ("Septem ciuitatum Patria") shown surrounding a large lake which flows into the Gulf of California. Many of the town names are derived from Coronado's lost map. Burden 106; Schwartz & Ehrenberg plate 41; Heckrotte 7; Wheat 29; Wagner 188.
C From the Personal Collection of Gary Combs
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