Antique map of North America (Northeast) by Metellus J.M. 1600
Norumbega et Virginia
Item Number: 1641 Authenticity Guarantee
Category: Antique maps > America > North America
Copper engraving
Size: 18.5 x 23cm (7.1 x 9 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Browned along centrefold, slight shine-through of verso text.
Condition Rating: B+
References: Burden, 118; Meurer (Cologne), Met 9 (6).
From: America, sive Novus Orbis. Tabulis Aeneis Secundum Rationes Geographicas Delineatus. Cologne, 1600. (Meurer, Met 9)
"From José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis this very rare map by Johannes Metellus, like most of the others in the set, is a reduced version of the Cornelis Wytfliet map of the same name in 1597. Unlike it, however, there are no latitude or longitude markings. It shows the east coast of North America from the Outer Banks of present day Carolina to Canada. It is depicted at a period just before the English sent a number of voyages to explore and settle the coast. The Wytfliet was the most accurate map of the east coast until de Laet, 1630. One of the main inaccuracies is that the middle Atlantic coast is placed some 4° to 6° too far north resulting in Chesipooc Sinus (Chesapeake Bay) being placed at the same latitude as present day southern Maine." (Burden)