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[MAP]. ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527–1598). Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio. [Antwerp, 1579].
Engraved map with hand–coloring, 416 x 546 mm. Decorative cartouche, galleons and ships, Latin text on verso. (some very light marginal browning, few spots to image and verso, small paper repair to fold at lower margin, else a bright example).
SECOND EDITION. Regarded as a “keystone map” which “provides the best general picture of the settlement of the New World in the latter part of the sixteenth century” (Goss). According to Burden, “the most important introductions on the east coast are the Indian name WINGANDEKOA, and just to the north an inlet. They both originate from the unsuccessful English attempts at colonising the Outer Banks of present–day North Carolina. It has been suggested that the inlet could be the first depiction of Chesapeake Bay on a printed map.” Burden 64; Goss 11; Van den Broecke Ort10 (1579L).