Details

Subject(s)

• South America—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Peru—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Related name

• Méndez, Diego, 1499-1544 [Browse]

Donor

• McCabe, Robert A., 1934- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—South America—1608 [Browse]
• Maps—Peru—1608 [Browse]

Notes

• Shows portion of Central America and northwestern South America.
• Relief shown pictorially.
• Appears in the author's Theatrum orbis terrarum. Addidtamentum III. The two Italian editions of 1608 and 1612 are identical. cf. Burden, P.D. The mapping of North America, p. 72.
• Includes ill.
• Italian text on verso; signature 9.
• Originally issued on sheet with 2 other maps.

Source acquisition

Historic Maps copy is gift of Robert A. McCabe, Princeton class of 1956.

References

• Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America 57
• Broecke, M. P. R. van den. Ortelius atlas maps Ort 15a

Other title(s)

Pervviae avriferae regionis typvs

OCLC

709684742

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