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Antique 1606 Hondius Map of America 24” x 30” - $30 (San Antonio)
9030 Perrin Beitel Rd
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like new
model name / number:
2103001759
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TwoOneZero-300-1759
Historic 1606 Hondius Map of America
1999 Flying Colors Printed in USA
A stunning full color example of Jodocus Hondius' 1606 map of America. Presented on a stereographic projection and centered on the Americas, the map extends west to include the Pacific as far as New Guinea, and east to include the Atlantic as far as the British Isles, western Spain, and western Africa. It further extends from Greenland to the speculative continent of Terra Australis just south of the Straits of Magellan.
North America is typically distorted with a large eastward bulge in the vicinity of Virginia and the Carolinas associated with multiple erroneous calculations of longitude at sea. Sir Walter Raleigh's colony at Croatoan on the Outer Banks is noted, as is the Chesapeake Bay (Chesepiook). Newfoundland follows the Petrus Plancius model but otherwise the northeast is typical of other period maps. In what is today Maine, the apocryphal utopic American Indian city of Norumbega is noted, probably in the vicinity of Penobscot. There appears, as yet, no trace of the Great Lakes, but a note to the left of the title suggests an association of the Strait of Anian, itself an anomaly, with Davis Strait – thus hope for a northwest passage. Along the west coast evidence of Drake's voyage appears in the naming of Nova Albion, the part of the American coast Drake claimed for England.
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24” x 30”
$30
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