![ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-98). Americae sive nobi orbis, nova descriptio, [Antwerp:] 1587. Engraved map, elaborate baroque title cartouche, galleons and sea-monster, French text on verso (2 holes, one very small in sea area, the other 4 x 3mm. affecting edge of cartouche, very lightly browned, marginal tear), 355 x 483mm. Burden The Mapping of North America 64; Schwartz & Ehrenberg p.69; Tooley The Mapping of America vol. II, p.321.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/CSK/2001_CSK_09280_0470_000(040028).jpg?w=1)
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ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-98). Americae sive nobi orbis, nova descriptio, [Antwerp:] 1587. Engraved map, elaborate baroque title cartouche, galleons and sea-monster, French text on verso (2 holes, one very small in sea area, the other 4 x 3mm. affecting edge of cartouche, very lightly browned, marginal tear), 355 x 483mm. Burden The Mapping of North America 64; Schwartz & Ehrenberg p.69; Tooley The Mapping of America vol. II, p.321.
"One of the most famous and easily recognised maps of America, and one that is both functional as as well as decorative ... had a great influence on the future cartography of the New World" (Burden, referring to the 1570 issue).
"One of the most famous and easily recognised maps of America, and one that is both functional as as well as decorative ... had a great influence on the future cartography of the New World" (Burden, referring to the 1570 issue).
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