This is a very handsome, uncommon map of the Americas with two large figurative title cartouches representing each of the continents. The cartography of North America is based on the Sanson-Jaillot model with California as an island and the R. del Norte (Rio Grande) flowing westward from a large inland lake located just north of Taos. Buttons Bay and the Great Lakes are both left open-ended in the west, allowing the possibility of a Northwest Passage. In South America the mythical Parime Lacus straddles the equator, the Amazon River is shown as an elaborate network of waterways, and the Paraguay River has it headwaters in the spurious Xarayes Lake. Quiri Regio and Insule Salmonis are prominently featured in the Pacific.

See also lot 718 for R.V. Tooley's The Mapping of America that lists this map.

References: McLaughlin #120; Tooley (Amer) p. 125 #56.

Condition: B+

A nice impression with original outline color in the map and later color in the cartouches, on a bright sheet. Remargined at top with the top neatline replaced in facsimile.