America Septentrionalis: Jansson 1641

Title: America Septentrionalis Author: Jan Jansson Date: 1641 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - delightful contemporary color with the most harmonious and mellow age toning. Stunning example Inches: 18.4 x 21.7 [Image] Centimeters: 46.74 x 55.12 [Image] Product ID: 315102 Influential map of North America asserting European territorial claims first published in the 1636 Latin edition of Gerard Mercator's Atlas. It was not until the 1641 edition of the Atlas Novus that Jan Jansson added his own name to the plate. The map represents the popular mid-seventeenth-century European conception of the continent, with a good general outline that lacked internal details. Although great progress had been made in mapping the Northeast with the explorations of Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain, the lack of information in the Southwest reflected the Spanish lack of consolidation in their New World realm, as well as their reluctance to convey what