A 16th century miniature map of South America

LANGENES, Barent.

Peruana.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Claez, 1599, Dutch text edition. 85 x 125mm, with letterpress surtitle 'Africa' and pagination.

Repairs to margins with loss to letterpress on verso.

A scarce map of South America, engraved by either Jodocus Hondius or Pieter van den Keere for the 1598 'Caert-Thresoor', with a text by an unknown author. This example is a printer's mistake: it was printed where the map of Africa should have been.
By 1600 this map was being published in the 'Tabularum Geographicarum' with a text by Petrus Bertius, and in 1616 a new plate was engraved by Jodocus Hondius II, slightly larger and with wider borders with scales of longitude and latitude.


Stock ID : 21254