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Title: Floridae Americae Provinceae Recens & exactissima descriptio... Author: Le Moyne, Jacques / Theodore de Bry Place: Frankfurt Publisher: Date: 1591 Description: Engraved map, full color. 37x45.5 cm (14½x17¾"). Map showing the Florida peninsula and Cuba and extending north to Cape Lookout. This map was published in Le Moyne's book on Florida published by De Bry. J. Faupel states that the map "had been compiled from two completely different sources: the le Moyne manuscript centered on the French colonists' fort in northern Florida and a Spanish map, covering most of the Southeast. Several facts about the published map confirm this duality." Despite the fact that his map is not very accurate it was extremely influential; partially because Hondius copied it and included it in his editions of the Mercator Atlas, which had wide circulation and popularity. The map's inaccuracy is mainly in the longitude, which resulted in an extended eastward slant to the Atlantic coastline. Most of the information presented was derived from Indian sources including several spurious lakes. Many of these features were copied by subsequent cartographers for over 150 years. Further Notes from the Files of Warren Heckrotte Full title: Floridae Americae Provinceae Recens & exactissima descriptio Auctorè Iacobo le Moÿne cui cognomen de Morgues, Qui Laudonnierum, altera Gallorum in eam Provinceam Noudgatione Comitatus est, Atque adhibitis aliquot militibus. Ob pericula, Regionis illius interiora & Maritima diligentissimè Lustrauit, & Exaciissimè dimensus wst. Obseruata etiam singulorum fluminum kinter se distantia, ut ipsemet redux Carolo. IX, Galliarum Regi, demonstrauit. | [linear scales] | Scale about 82 miles to an inch. Watermark : a monogram - a D with a P inside. Provenance: Nebenzahl, '66 References: Burden #79; Cumming, Southeast in Early Maps, #14 ( Rep ). Fite & Freeman, plate 20 ( Rep ). Faupel in TMC, 52, 9/90, pp 33-36. Goss, The Mapping of North America, Map 16 ( Rep ). John Faupel, Early Claims to the Ownership of Florida, in IMCoS Journal, no 106, Aut 2006, pp 30-35, with background and a detailed analysis of the map. Lot Amendments Condition: Margin repaired/extended at lower left with a short verso repair to tear, old folds now flattened, very faint discoloration in Atlantic Ocean; very good. Item number: 267382