Books and Manuscripts

Seutter, Matth(ias).
Novus Orbis sive America Meridionalis et Septentrionalis…
Augsburg, ca. 1730. Engraved hand-colored map of the Americas. Mounted to board along edges; creasing from old folds; contemporary manuscript number in top right corner; light soiling in margins. 20 1/4 x 23 5/8 in. (514 x 600 mm) (sight). In mat and in frame, 27 x 30 in. (686 x 762 mm). Tooley 91

Hand-colored engraved map of North and South America, with California depicted as an island, and two large elaborately illustrated cartouches. “Based on the Sanson-Homann formula but with additions, several rivers are inserted on the west coast and two mountains in the north…The tracks of the early navigators are shown in the Pacific…” (Tooley)