Handcolored map of America from Part VI of De Bry's Voyages.This map is "largely derived from the Petrus Plancius world map of 1594 …[and] it incorporates accurately for the first time the White-Le Moyne cartography upon a map of America, VIRGINIA being placed more correctly further south" (Burden). Important European explorers grace the corners; a secondedition was published in 1617. Burden 91; see Crawford p. 135.

334 x 396 mm engraved map on 345 x 413 mm sheet, hand-colored (cropped close to the platemark in lower right corner). Framed.

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