It was the first map of North America to show the geography of Virginia and Florida as documented by John White, who was part of expeditions to Roanoke Island in the 1580s, and Jacques Le Moyne, who participated in a French expedition to Florida in 1564.

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A very fine full color example of De Bry's scarce map of North and South America. With full-length portraits of the important explorers Colombus, Vespucci, Magellan and Pizaro. From part six of Theodor de Bry's Grand Voyages , printed 1596 in Frankfurt.

A 1596 map of the Americas featuring illustrations of four prominent explorers. These sets were created and reviewed by teachers. Explore resources and ideas for Using DPLA's Primary Source Sets in your classroom.

America, 1596: Full Title: America. Map Creator: Magini, Giovanni Antonio, 1555-1617. Date Original: 1596: Description: This is the oldest map in the Parker collection. It is based on the geography of Ortelius, who is considered to be the creator of the first modern atlas and the first to propose a theory of continental drift. Ordering Information

This beautifully engraved world map is the 1596 first edition of Giovanni Magini's reduction of Mercator's 1569 world wall map. It is among the first commercial maps not by Mercator himself to employ the projection.

This map shows the famous great bulge at the southwestern coast of South America. Dozens of place names appear in New France, the Southwest, Mexico, the Caribbean, Peru, and Brazil - including Sierra Nevada, Apalchen and Quivira (a mythical city described to Coronado as “rich in gold with lordly rulers”.

A rare and early world map of Mathias Quad. First published in Matthias Quad's Europae totius orbis terrarum in 1596. This example comes from the Fasciculus Geographicus printed by Johann Bussemacher in Cologne in 1608.

This is a reprodution of very rare large double hemisphere world map, with the address of Joan Baptistum Vrients, made for the first edition of Linschoten's Itinerario published by Cornelis Claesz. The map is a close copy of Plancius' separately published world map of 1594.. INFO: Fine reproduction printed with a Canon imagePROGRAF TX-4000.