LAET, Johannes de (1593-1649). Novus Orbis, seu descriptionis Indiae occidentalis. Leiden: Elzevir, 1633. The first Edition in Latin. "One of the most famous contemporary descriptions of the natural history of the New World. The work was highly praised a century later by Charlevoix, attesting to its accuracy [...] Winsor referred to Laet's book as the standard seventeenth-century work on New Netherland" (Streeter). This edition includes four regional American maps first published in the enlarged second edition of 1630. The "Nova Anglia" map, showing the coast and inland areas from Nova Scotia to North Carolina, is the first printed map to mention the name Manhattan, here spelled "Manbattes." Many of the maps served as prototypes for later Dutch maps of the region; The translation from the Dutch was probably made by Laet himself. Alden & Landis 633/65; Borba de Moraes p. 451; Burden 229-232; Cumming Southeast 34; Phillips 1149; Sabin 38557; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, p. 105; Streeter sale 37; Willems 382. Folio (349 x 219mm). Half-title, engraved architectural title, 14 engraved double-page maps by Hessel Gerritsz (a few possibly supplied, some closely trimmed), numerous woodcut illustrations of plants, animals and inhabitants of the New World in text (some occasional browning and spotting, heavier in the last quire). 19th-century brown morocco gilt, edges gilt (rebacked preserving original spine).
LAET, Johannes de (1593-1649). Novus Orbis, seu descriptionis Indiae occidentalis. Leiden: Elzevir, 1633. The first Edition in Latin. "One of the most famous contemporary descriptions of the natural history of the New World. The work was highly praised a century later by Charlevoix, attesting to its accuracy [...] Winsor referred to Laet's book as the standard seventeenth-century work on New Netherland" (Streeter). This edition includes four regional American maps first published in the enlarged second edition of 1630. The "Nova Anglia" map, showing the coast and inland areas from Nova Scotia to North Carolina, is the first printed map to mention the name Manhattan, here spelled "Manbattes." Many of the maps served as prototypes for later Dutch maps of the region; The translation from the Dutch was probably made by Laet himself. Alden & Landis 633/65; Borba de Moraes p. 451; Burden 229-232; Cumming Southeast 34; Phillips 1149; Sabin 38557; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, p. 105; Streeter sale 37; Willems 382. Folio (349 x 219mm). Half-title, engraved architectural title, 14 engraved double-page maps by Hessel Gerritsz (a few possibly supplied, some closely trimmed), numerous woodcut illustrations of plants, animals and inhabitants of the New World in text (some occasional browning and spotting, heavier in the last quire). 19th-century brown morocco gilt, edges gilt (rebacked preserving original spine).
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