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ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Americae sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio.
ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Americae sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio. Double-page engraved map, 370x510 mm, bottom margin trimmed to neat line or just inside, others ample, Latin text on verso; hand-colored in outline; worming along the folds restored but with minor loss in the South Pacific, polar regions, and to the ornamental border, a bit grayed overall. Antwerp, 1571
- Notes: Burden's second state from the 1570 plate, with the Azores correctly labelled, with the 7-mm circle and diamond border and with the bulge along the Chilean coast. A derivative of Mercator's large map published the year before, this is the first edition of Ortelius's map of America which he reissued several times. Burden 39.
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