THE AMERICAS - MATTHAEUS MERIAN.

America noviter delineata (in the cartouche). Septentrionalissimas Americae partes Groenlandiam puta, Islandiam at adjacentes, quod Americae tabulae commodé comprehendi non potuerit, peculariari hac tabella Spectatoribus exhibendas duximus. (At upper left).

Without place, (Basel ca. 1650). 30x36 cm. Fine engraved map of North and South America from Terra del Fuego, Terra Australis Incognita and the Magellan Strait in the south to the unmapped regions in the north. A small map of the known parts og Greenland in inset. Outer left shows the coasts regions of Spain and Africa. Ships and whales in the see. Signed M. Merian fecit (lower right). Clean and fine, broad margins, uncoloured.

Order-nr.: 44316