Florida Et Apalche
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An important and rare map - one of the earliest to focus on the southeast and to name "Florida", After the smaller map by Ortelius that appeared as part of a composite group with parts of Mexico on the same plate, this map has inland detail derived from the reports of Hernando de Soto and shows Florida in a distinctive rectangular form. Cornelis Wytfliet's atlas was the first to concentrate exclusively on the Americas, and appeared as a "Supplement to Ptolemy" with subsequent French editions under the title "Histoire Universelle des Indes Occidentales". This is a good crisp impression of a foundation map in the southeast's cartographic history.
region: Maps of Virginia and the South-East |
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