Ortelius, Abraham. The Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Texas to Tampico. Antwerp: 1592.

Abraham Ortelius The Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Texas to Tampico Antwerp: 1592 18 ½ x 22 ¾ inches Three maps on one sheet: MÉNDEZ, Diego de. Pervviae avriferæ regionis typvs. Didaco Mendezio auctore. [text in block at lower left] Hæ insulæ primum detecta fuere ao. 1574.   CHAVES, Gerónimo de. La Florida. Auctore Hieron Chiaues. [cartouche at top right] Cum Priuilegio.  Gvastecan Reg Ortelius included this map in his atlas beginning in 1584. The present map appeared in a Latin edition of Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world (Phillips, Atlases 392). Together, the three maps show the most significant parts of the New World in the last decades of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth century. Burden, The Mapping of North America 57, pp. 71-73. “One of the half-dozen most important mother maps of southeastern North America.” Martin & Martin, pp. 18 & 75n: “Privy to all of the official reports of the Spanish explorers, Chave