1662 Joan Blaeu Antique Map of the New World, America - Magnificent Spain & Portugal from the 1525 edition of

from the 1525 edition of Fries Atlas

which were debated among map scholars and explorers until Captain James Cook dispelled these myths in his three Voyages to the Pacific

published prior to the American Revolution for Independence from Britain

which sent its first surveyors to the district in 1826

Twenty years later Dürer tried unsuccessfully to get the Archduchess Margaret

1662 Joan Blaeu Antique Map of the New World, America - Magnificent Spain & Portugal from the 1525 edition ofTitle : Americae nova Tabula Auct: Guiljesino Blaeuw Size: 24in x 20in (610mm x 510mm) Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Date : 1662 Ref #: 3007 Description: This beautiful, original, hand coloured copper plate engraved antique map, the quintessential 17th century image of America, The New World, was published in arguably the greatest atlas ever published, the 11th volume of Joan Blaeus 1662 edition of Atlas Major, or Great Atlas, Latin 1st edition. This