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LAET, JOHANNES DE. Novus Orbis seu Descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis Libri XVIII. Leiden: Elzevier 1633. Folio, 330 x 220 mm. (13 x 8 5/8 in.), contemporary vellum over pasteboard, small tears to head and tail of spine and upper joint, upper inner hinge split, the usual occasional discoloration to text, affecting 5 or 6 maps, short marginal fold break to first map, creasing to Guiana and Venezuela maps, occasional mostly marginal soiling, some faint dampstaining to upper margins. First Edition in Latin, half-title, engraved architectural title, 14 engraved double-page maps by Hessel Gerritsz, numerous woodcuts in the text of plants, animals and inhabitants of the New World. Alden 633/65; Borba de Moraes p. 451; Burden 229-232; Cumming Southeast, 34; Phillips 1149; Sabin 38557; Schwartz and Ehrenberg, p. 105; Willems 382. Bookplate of the Tarrytown Historical Society.
"One of the most famous contemporary descriptions of the natural history of the New World. The work was highly praised a century later by Charlevoix, attesting to its accuracy... Winsor referred to Laet's book as the standard seventeenth-century work on New Netherland" (Streeter sale I:37). This edition includes four regional American maps first published in the enlarged second edition of 1630. The "Nova Anglia" map, showing the coast and inland areas from Nova Scotia to North Carolina, is the first printed map to mention the name Manhattan, here spelled "Manbattes". Many of the maps served as prototypes for later Dutch maps of the region; The translation from the Dutch was probably by Laet himself.
"One of the most famous contemporary descriptions of the natural history of the New World. The work was highly praised a century later by Charlevoix, attesting to its accuracy... Winsor referred to Laet's book as the standard seventeenth-century work on New Netherland" (Streeter sale I:37). This edition includes four regional American maps first published in the enlarged second edition of 1630. The "Nova Anglia" map, showing the coast and inland areas from Nova Scotia to North Carolina, is the first printed map to mention the name Manhattan, here spelled "Manbattes". Many of the maps served as prototypes for later Dutch maps of the region; The translation from the Dutch was probably by Laet himself.