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SCHENK, Petrus (1660-1711). Nova totius Americae tabula. Amsterdam: Petrus Schenk, c.1710.
A spectacular and extremely rare Schenk wall map of the Americas with five town views. This map largely derives from Jan Mathysz’s set of the continents published c.1655, which were in turn based on Joan Blaeu’s world map of 1648 (Shirley 371). There is a single, large open Great Lake and California is shown as an island. The town views are: Nombred Dios (the northern starting point for portage to Panama); Panama; St. Augustine (the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in North America); San Salvadore (Columbus’s landing point in 1492); and New York showing a Dutch windmill and a view of Fort Amsterdam. There is also an inset map of the North Pole. The word “Americae” on the title is on a separate pasted strip (as issued). The only other known copies of this map are at Colonial Williamsburg and one on rollers in an anonymous collection. It is one of a set of continental wall maps by Schenk, see the following lot for Asia. Africa is also known but no copies of Europe, if it existed, are known to survive.
Engraved map hand-colored in outline on two joined sheets plus title strip and 5 mounted hand-colored town views, overall image size 821 x 945mm, sheet 848 x 963mm (restoration to edges and along some creases chiefly in Pacific, a little spotting at head, mild toning/soiling). Cartouches by Willem van Gouwen after Philip Tideman. Float-mounted, matted and framed.
A spectacular and extremely rare Schenk wall map of the Americas with five town views. This map largely derives from Jan Mathysz’s set of the continents published c.1655, which were in turn based on Joan Blaeu’s world map of 1648 (Shirley 371). There is a single, large open Great Lake and California is shown as an island. The town views are: Nombred Dios (the northern starting point for portage to Panama); Panama; St. Augustine (the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in North America); San Salvadore (Columbus’s landing point in 1492); and New York showing a Dutch windmill and a view of Fort Amsterdam. There is also an inset map of the North Pole. The word “Americae” on the title is on a separate pasted strip (as issued). The only other known copies of this map are at Colonial Williamsburg and one on rollers in an anonymous collection. It is one of a set of continental wall maps by Schenk, see the following lot for Asia. Africa is also known but no copies of Europe, if it existed, are known to survive.
Engraved map hand-colored in outline on two joined sheets plus title strip and 5 mounted hand-colored town views, overall image size 821 x 945mm, sheet 848 x 963mm (restoration to edges and along some creases chiefly in Pacific, a little spotting at head, mild toning/soiling). Cartouches by Willem van Gouwen after Philip Tideman. Float-mounted, matted and framed.