(AMERICAN SOUTHEAST) Johannes de Laet Florida et Regiones Vi

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Sale 2689 - Lot 11

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

(AMERICAN SOUTHEAST.) Johannes de Laet. Florida, et Regiones Vicinae. Double-page engraved map of the American east coast, Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, and a multi-branched Mississippi River emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. 13¼x15 inches sheet size, wide margins; minor age tone and foxing. De Laet's work is "arguably the finest description of the Americas published in the seventeenth century" -- Burden 232. Leiden, 1630

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