(Map of western South America).
Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied by cataloger. Attributed to Gerard Mercator? Cf. Philip D. Burden's letter, April 14, 1994, to James Flatness. In cartouche: Celeberrimæ prouinciæ in America versus occidentem. Andreas Theuetus Latius hoc commemorat. In lower border: Meridies. Includes note and ill.
- Date
- 1569
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Mercator, Gerhard; Thevet, André
- Place
- South America
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 4,969 × 6,347 pixels
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