America

Acquired From: Leen Helmink

Colouring: Coloured

Condition: Fair

Date Acquired: 10/3/2023

Description: Second issue of Ogilby's English translation of Montanus's work, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weerld, published in the same year. Complete as issued, with the Arx Carolina plate and the Virginia pars Australis & Florida map replaced with the large folding "First Lords Proprietors" map and the map of Barbados at page 377. The final leaf of instructions for placing the plates retains the first issue listing, not reflecting the present changes.nThe female Indian at the top of the image represents the female continent America, throwing off her bounty of gold, with the bounty of commodities available in the New World represented below.nThe scheme functions as an ideological threshold: geography is introduced not neutrally but via emblematic shorthand, where personification, bounty, and spectacle pre-condition the readers understanding of the New World.

First published: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World, London Ogilby, John & Montanus, Arnoldus

Image Size (cm): 17.6×29.3

Mapmaker: Ogilby, John (1600-1676)

Price: 550

Primary Category: Titlepage

Rarity: R3 Uncommon – dealers can usually obtain a copy

Sheet size (cm): 22.5×37.3

Shirley ID #: 63A Courtiers and Cannibals

Technique: Copper Engraving

This state: 1671