America Septentrionalis / American
Essay/Description
This map depicts North, Central, and South America with California detached from the mainland.Scope and Contents note on Cartobibliography Form: "Other Significant Characteristics: (in Jansson's [underlined] Novus Atlas, sive theatrum orbis terrarum. 1646-49, vol. 3, pt. 2, no. 20"; "Other Information: H 1653 on verson along with page numbers 4 & 41. Mended by scotch tape on right edge, lower center and left center bottom 2 inch portions of map. This is earliest map showing the North America separately to be included in an atlas, Showing California as an island, it is based on the Briggs model of 1625. Map was reissued from the 1656 plate".