"Americae Descrip.", Mercator/Hondius
Subject: Western Hemisphere
Period: 1609 (circa)
Publication: Atlas Minor
Color: Black & White
Size:
7.7 x 6 inches
19.6 x 15.2 cm
Charming reduced version of the Americas map that Hondius engraved for Gerard Mercator's folio atlas. It is a combination of various cartographic sources. North America is greatly elongated with a Plancius type depiction of Newfoundland and a protruding Virginian coast. South America is shown with a more or less correct western coastline and there is a large southern continent incorporating New Guinea and Tierra del Fuego. Decorated with sea monsters, sailing ships, and a strapwork title cartouche. German text on verso.
References: Burden #153.
Condition: B
Couple of faint spots, else very good.
