Hondius America

Henricus Hondius.
America noviter delineata.
Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1641. 380 x 500mm. Original colour. Minor centrefold repair on verso otherwise very good.
£2,250
Despite Henricus's signature and the date of 1631, this is Jodocus Hondius Jnr's map of the Americas of 1618. It has insets of the two Poles, depicts California as a peninsula and has seas full of ships and seamonsters. BURDEN: 192, Jodocus Hondius Jnr's map, third state of five. HOND0006