Item #11033 Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae . . N. VISSCHER.
A Fine Original Color Example of the Rare First State
The First in an Important Sequence of Maps
Americas/ California as an Island..
[Amsterdam, 1658]

Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae . .

17 x 21 ¼ inches. Fine original color; reinforced at centerfold margins, excellent condition.

The rare first state of the map that set the standard for the mapping of the Western Hemisphere for the second half of the 17th century. "A map of importance ... it became the standard representation of North America for a number of years, [that was] copied by other Dutch and English publishers" (Tooley). "The same map, and probably plate, was used by the De Wits and others" (Karpinski). With dubious guile, the publishers of the succeeding issues of the map would rearrange the figures in the cartouches as well as the cartouches themselves, presumably to avert accusations of plagiarism.  The map shows one of the Great Lakes as a large, square-shaped lake open at its western end.  The island of California is delineated in the less commonly seen Briggs shape marked by the flattened northern coast.



* Burden 332; Tooley, America, pp. 314, 119-20, no. 29; Karpinski, p. 33; Leighly 56.

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