Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio

Subject

North and South America.

Date

1587

Mapmaker

[Ortelius, Abraham]

Publisher

[Ortelius, Abraham]

Place of Publication

[Antwerp]

Accession Number

1982.077.116

Alternate number

Seiferth Collection

Condition

Fair. Heavy foxing, browning. Needs conservation.

Curatorial Notes

Hand colored. Sophisticated cartography for 1587, more accurate than some later maps, does not show California as an island. First map of western hemisphere to achieve wide circulation, most Europeans formed their view of the Americas based on this rendition, published in the first modern uniform atlas.

Market Value

1982 appraisal: $3,700.00

Notes

Plate 2 from "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum." Locates European settlements in the New World, some Indian villages and waterways. Title cartouche surrounded by lions. Sea monsters, vessels, located in Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Size

14 x 19

Storage

c02d01