"America", Magini, Giovanni Antonio

Subject: Western Hemisphere - America
Period: 1597 (published)
Publication: Geographicae Universae tum Veteris Novae...
Color: Hand Color
Size: 4.9 x 6.6

This finely engraved map is derived from Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania's 1582 map of the Americas and further based on the geography of Ortelius. Most notable is the characteristic bulge to the west coast of South America and the huge Southern Continent that attaches to Nova Guinea. Anian and Quivira appear on North America's bulbous western coast. This example is from a new plate engraved for Petrus Keschedt's pirate edition of Magini. Blank verso.See also lot 852 for Philip Burden's The Mapping of North America that describes this map.

References: Burden #93.
Condition: B
There is foxing and light toning.