Amérique - Indes Cornille Wytfliet Giovani Antonio... Lot 586

Amérique - Indes] Cornille Wytfliet Giovani Antonio Magini Universal History of the East and West Indies divided into two books The first by Cornille Wytfliet, the second by Antoine Mangin (1555 1617) & other historians A Douay, at the expense of François Fabri 1605 in folio [31x19,7]Title (printed on one page doubled at the time with approbatio on the reverse Duaci, 24 octobris 1604), 1 fnch (dedication to Philippe de Caverel, abbot of Saint Vaast les Arras) first book, 126 pp and 16 engraved double-page maps mounted on nail/on 19 indiarum Ad. Lectorem et Table livre second, 52 pp, 2 plates bearing 4 maps (India, Japan,China, Philippine) p24/25 and 4 fnch Table Edition originale française du premier atlas d'Amérique comportant les cartes de l'édition de 1597, incluant la première carte imprimé du centre du Canada, la deuxième à utiliser la Virginie dans son titre, le Sud du Texas et la première carte de la Californie et du Sud-Ouest Américain Plein calf megissée blanche virée au fauve en extérieur a 5 nerfs. Golden title, accidents at the corner caps rubbed together. Strictly period binding the four small maps here in original edition include the second known map of the Philippines Alden and Landris 605/129 Borda de MoraesII, 381 chadenet 4958 Extremely rare text entirely devoted to the discovery, natural history and geography of the New World Phillips says this work "as important in the history of ancient cartography of the New World, as the Ptolemy maps are in the study of the ancient".