ARTIST: Hessel Gerritsz
MEDIUM: Copper plate engravings
DATE: 1630-33
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DESCRIPTION: The work that these maps appeared in “Novus Orbis seu descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis” By Johannes De Laet with the maps by Hessel Gerritsz. Leiden, 1630-33.<br><br> The maps are: Provinciae Sitae ad Fretum Magallanis itemque Fretum le Maire.<br> Peru<br> Chili<br> Venezuela, atque Occidentalis Pars Novae Andalusiae. <br> Tierra Firma item Nuevo Reyno de Grenada atque Popayan. <br><br> This work is one of the earliest to deal exclusively with America, its inhabitants, customs, flora and fauna, remarkably illustrated with Hessel Gerritsz´ maps and only the second atlas devoted to the Americas. “One of the most famous contemporary descriptions of the natural history of the New World. The work was highly praised a century later by Charlevoix, attesting to its accuracy” (Streeter sale, I, 37).<br><br> Gerritsz was a Dutch cartographer, apprenticed to Blaeu, and was chosen over him after starting his own business; he gained an appointment as cartographer to the Dutch East and West India Company. The maps included are in many cases foundational maps for several regions of the Americas, and later were used as prototypes by Blaeu & Hondius.<br><br>
ADDITIONAL INFO: Sold as a set of five only.
CONDITION: Condition is fair to good. Some occasional damp staining, tattering along sheet edges. B/W
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