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PUBLICATION DETAILS: This is the first state of the map, without the later addition of the plan of Mexico City and other features. Dated 1592 (Burden 80). The map appeared in Part III of de Bry’s Grands Voyage. Although some source cartography is unknown, the upper part of the map is drawn from de Bry’s own map of Florida and the West Indies taken from Jacques le Moyne which appeared de Bry’s Part II.
In cartouche in lower left: Chorographia nobilis & opulentæ Peruanæ Provinciæq, atque Brasiliae, quas à decimo ad quintum & quinquagesimum feré gradum ultra Aequatorem in longitudinem patere, diligenti observatione deprehensum est: ex Auctorum, qui eas Provincias perlustrarunt, scriptis recens à Theodoro de Bry concinata. Caesarae matis privilegio ad quadriennium MDXCII.
In cartouche in lower right: Ex Geograph: calculo tres gradats confici lxxx leucas gallicas, five ccxl. miliaria Italica : singuli ergo gradus fere xxvvc gal.
SOURCE PUBLICATION: “Dritte Buch Americae, Darinn Brasilia durch Johann Staden […] Item Historia der Schiffart Ioannis Lerij in Brasilien, welche er selbst publiciert hat […] Vom Wilden unerhörten wesen der Innwoner, von allerley frembden Gethieren und Gewächsen, sampt einem Colloquio, in der Wilden Sprach.”
The book is catalogued as Part III 0f de Bry’s Grand Voyages. It is sometimes called the “Latin America”. This is a rare, important map of South America extending northward to include all of Central America, the Caribbean Islands and a large portion of southern North America, now the United States. Florida is clearly shown and named.
Texts are by Hans Staden who was in Brazil 1552-1555 and Jean de Léry who was in Brazil 1557-1558.
THEODORE DE BRY (1528 – 1598) was born in Liège in what is now called Belgium. He followed the footsteps of his grandfather and father who were jewelers and engravers of copper plates, developing skills as an engraver and becoming a goldsmith and an engraver. The Spanish Inquisition forced de Bry, a Protestant, to flee to Strasbourg, a free imperial city at that time. From there he moved on to Antwerp and London and in 1588, he and his family moved permanently to Frankfurt am Main (pronounced “Mine” and referring to the river that passes by Frankfurt). There he became a citizen and began to plan his first publications.
CONDITION: Center fold, as issued. Left margin trimmed to neatline. Two pieces of tape at upper margin, verso. Uncolored. Image very good.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Burden, Philip D. The Mapping of North America. Rickmansworth: Raleigh Publications, 1996.
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