WYTFLIET CORNELIS van Norumbega et Virginia

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WYTFLIET, CORNELIS van. Norumbega et Virginia. Double-page engraved map, 235x300 mm, wide margins; few very minor repairs in margins. Douai, 1607

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Originally issued in 1597 in the first atlas devoted to the New World, Descriptionis Ptolmaicae augmentum. The present example is in the second of 3 states, with the date removed from the cartouche, but without the corrected latitude reading. Burden 103; Cumming 19; McCorkle 597.3 (note); Schwartz and Ehrenberg, pages 80 and 83.