DE BRY THEODORE America Sive Novus Orbis Respectu Europaeoru

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DE BRY, THEODORE. America Sive Novus Orbis Respectu Europaeorum Inferior Globi Terrestris. Double-page engraved map of the Americas. 13 3/4x16 3/4 inches sheet size, ample margins; several pinpoint wormholes in margins, light areas of minor discoloration. Frankfurt, 1596

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Attractive example of an important map of the Western Hemisphere originally published in Part Six of de Bry's Grand Voyages at the close of the sixteenth century. The single hemispheric presentation is fully decorated in the borders with standing portraits of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Ferdinand Magellan and Francisco Pizarro. Burden 91.