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Michael Mercator (c.1567-1600)
America sive India Nova, ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui Universalis imitationem in compendium redacta, Duisburg: [1613 or later]. Handcoloured engraved hemispherical map within wide decorative floral border, 4 roundels in corners, one containing the title, the others containing small maps of the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba and Haiti, Latin text on verso with signature "M" (very slight separation at centrefold, reinforced on verso), 362 x 454mm.
Burden The Mapping of America 87; Phillips p. 104; Wagner 179; Wallis 74. "The only printed map known to be by [Michael Mercator], it is beautifully engraved ... The general outline is largely taken from Rumold Mercator's world map of 1587, with a little more detail added. A few of the most famous theories are still present: a large inland lake in Canada, two of the four islands of the North Pole ... a bulge to the west coast of South America and the large southern continent. It does not show any knowledge of the English in Virginia, which is possibly a reflection of their failure by then" (Burden).
America sive India Nova, ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui Universalis imitationem in compendium redacta, Duisburg: [1613 or later]. Handcoloured engraved hemispherical map within wide decorative floral border, 4 roundels in corners, one containing the title, the others containing small maps of the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba and Haiti, Latin text on verso with signature "M" (very slight separation at centrefold, reinforced on verso), 362 x 454mm.
Burden The Mapping of America 87; Phillips p. 104; Wagner 179; Wallis 74. "The only printed map known to be by [Michael Mercator], it is beautifully engraved ... The general outline is largely taken from Rumold Mercator's world map of 1587, with a little more detail added. A few of the most famous theories are still present: a large inland lake in Canada, two of the four islands of the North Pole ... a bulge to the west coast of South America and the large southern continent. It does not show any knowledge of the English in Virginia, which is possibly a reflection of their failure by then" (Burden).
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