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"3 parts in one volume, folio (12 1/4 x 8 in.; 31.1 x 20.3 cm). Title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette, additional engraved title-page, engraved headpiece on *3, 7 full-page engraved portraits, engraved folding map of North and South America by Gerard Schagen, 2 other folding maps, 45 double-page maps and views, 69 engraved text illustrations; small faint stain on letterpress title, text toned throughout, Schagen map toned, maps of Nova Mexico, Mauritiopolis, and Brazil browned, map of Novi Belgii trimmed at margins, bottom margin of Arx Principi Guiljelmi a trifled frayed, a few light dampstains in lower inner corners, small hole in text on p. 195 costing a word or two. Contemporary stiff vellum; split along lower joint, bookplate removed from front pastedown. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the engraved portrait of Jan Maurits, Prince of Nassau. Other portraits in the work feature those of the early explorers (Columbus, Vespucci, Magellan, and Pizarro) as well as of the last Incan emperor Atahualpa (killed by Pizarro) and the Aztec emperor Montezuma (killed during the Spanish conquest of Mexico). "A CLASSIC BOOK ON AMERICA" (Borba de Moraes). Montanus's narrative contains a wealth of maps and illustrations of North and South America. The North American section contains versions of Blaeu's map of New England and New Netherland, as well as versions of the John Smith Virginia and Carolina maps. there is also a detailed map of Bermuda, and numerous views of cities and scenes in Mexico and the Caribbean. Much of the second half of the volume is devoted to Brazil, where the Dutch were deeply involved for decades in the 17th century. Among the text engravings is one of the first views of New Amsterdam (p. 124), which G. M. Asher described in his Bibliographical Essay as "without any doubt, the handsomest, and … the most agreeable view of Dutch New York." Howes praised the illustrations for their "beauty and wealth of copperplates comparable only to De Bry." REFERENCES: Asher, New Netherland 14; Borba de Moraes, p. 586; Church 613; Howes M733; Phelps Stokes I:142-143 and VI:262; Sabin 50086". N° de ref. del artículo 65ERM0189
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