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AMER2122
Cartographer: Waldseemuller/Fries
Title: : Oceani Occidetalis Seu Terre Noue Tabula
Date: 1525      Size: 15 x 11 inches
Published: Strasbourg
Description: America. Rare and important rendition of the New World after Waldseemuller. [Burden 4]
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AMER2261
Cartographer: Sebastian Munster
Title: : Die Nuw Welt
Date: 1559      Size: 14 x 11 inches
Published: Basel
Description: First map to show America as a separate continent. Woodcut. [Burden 12, State 10]
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AMER1893
Cartographer: Theodore De Bry
Title: : America Sive Novvs Orbis Respectv Evropaeorvm Inferior Globi Terrestris Pars 1596
Date: c. 1595      Size: 16 x 13 inches
Published: Antwerp
Description: Rare Hemisphere bordered with finely engraved figures of four explorers. Lower margin restored. [Burden 91]
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AMER2223
Cartographer: Mercator Hondius
Title: : Americae Descrip.
Date: 1607      Size: 8 x 6 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Attractive minature map of the Americas with Latin text on verso. A number of charming ships and sea monsters decorate the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Coloured. [Burden 153]
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AMER2184
Cartographer: Abraham Ortelius
Title: : Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio
Date: 1612      Size: 20 x 14 inches
Published: Antwerp
Description: Beautiful and ornate map of the Americas embellished with ships, sea monsters and an elaborate strapwork cartouche. Spanish edition of this important and influential map. Rich original hand-colour. [Burden 39.3]
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AMER2218
Cartographer: Petrus Bertius
Title: : Descriptio Americae
Date: 1616      Size: 5 x 3 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Miniature map of the Americas published by Jodocus Hondius Jr. in his 1616 edition of Petrus Bertius' 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum'. Coloured. [Burden 183]
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AMER2084
Cartographer: Mercator Hondius
Title: : America siue India Nova
Date: 1623      Size: 18 x 14 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Americas. Landmark map of the continent based on Gerard Mercator's wall map. Original hand-colour. [Burden 87]
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AMER2064
Cartographer: Jodocus Hondius
Title: : America Noviter Delineata
Date: 1630      Size: 22 x 16 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Rare and exquisite map of the Americas with miniature bird's-eye city views in the upper and lower borders, and with indigenous figures in local costume decorating the right and left borders. [Burden 207.2]
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AMER2233
Cartographer: Jan Jansson
Title: : Americae Descriptio
Date: 1630      Size: 8 x 6 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Beautiful map of the Americas showing a navigable North West Passage, as well as a large, completely detached body of land in the region of modern-day Alaska. Coloured. [Burden 221]
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AMER2296
Cartographer: J. & H. Hondius
Title: : America noviter delineata
Date: 1631      Size: 20 x 15 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Archetypal map of North and South America published by the Hondius family, one of the Houses which defined the Dutch Golden Age of Mapmaking. Original colour. [Burden 192]
Map Ref: AMER2296
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AMER1910
Cartographer: Blaeu/Von Meteren
Title: : Americae nova Tabula
Date: 1633      Size: 18 x 14 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: RARE. Americas. Von Meteren edition without border panels. [Burden 189]
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AMER1749
Cartographer: Matthaus Merian
Title: : America noviter delineata
Date: c. 1638      Size: 14 x 11 inches
Published: Frankfurt
Description: Decorative map of North & South America with a strapwork title cartouche and an inset map of Greenland. Embellished with miniature ships and sea monsters. Coloured. [Burden 251]
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AMER1982
Cartographer: Jodocus Hondius
Title: : America noviter delineata
Date: c. 1638      Size: 22 x 16 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Americas. RARE three border "figure" map engraved by Jansson. German text. Coloured. [Schilder 18 (State 4). Burden 207 (State 3)] (Framed).
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AMER1963
Cartographer: Pierre Mariette
Title: : America Noviter Delineata
Date: c. 1650      Size: 19 x 14 inches
Published: Paris
Description: Decorative separately issued map of the Americas, one of many derivatives of Jodocus Hondius's map of 1618. Inset maps of the hypothesized Antarctica and of Greenland. Embellished with sailing ships. Coloured. [Burden 300]
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AMER2272
Cartographer: Anne Seile
Title: : Americae Nova Descriptio
Date: 1663      Size: 14 x 16 inches
Published: London
Description: The earliest map of the Americas attributed to a female mapmaker. Shows California as an island. Strong Impression. [Burden 379]
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AMER2315
Cartographer: John Speed
Title: : America
Date: 1676      Size: 20 x 16 inches
Published: London
Description: Stunning map of the Americas with decorative borders showing peoples and cities. The first atlas map to show California as an island. English text on verso.
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