1613 America sive India Nova ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris avi universalis imitationem incompendium redacta

By: Michael Mercator Date: 1613 / Duisberg Dimensions: 16 x 19.5 inches (40.7 x 49.5 cm) This is an authentic antique map of the Western Hemisphere by Michael Mercator. The map is based on Rumold Mercator’s world map of 1587 This highly sought after map of the new world displays a vast amount of erroneous geographic curiosities from pole to pole. The North Pole is shown as several large islands just above a clear Northwest Passage and large inland lake in northern Canada. In America, the St. Lawrence extends far inland until its path is interrupted by a mountain range that comes from early Spanish explorations of the Southwest. Three circular inserts show various islands of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. South America displays two large bulges on the east and west coast. The western bulge would disappear by the second state of the map; however the exaggerated eastern bulge would appear in most maps for well over a century. The majority of the Southern Hemisphere is dominated by a ma