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Superb Dutch Engraving and Color
Florida/ Southeast/ Gulf Coast/ Carribean.
VISSCHER, N. [Amsterdam, c. 1680]
Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentionali.
18 1/8 x 22 3/8 inches.
Fine original color; excellent.
A particuarly handsome map portraying all the Caribbean islands, part of Mexico, Central America, Florida (called "Tegesta Prov.") and part of South America. Strangely, the area of present day Georgia and part of South Carolina is called French Florida ("Florida Galli"); the French colonies in the area had been obliterated a century before this map appeared. The map extends as far north as Delaware Bay. Putti adorn the cartouche in the upper right, while two nereids and a merman make sport of a perplexed ichthyocentaur (with the body of a man, the front legs of a horse and the tail of a fish). The engraving of the figures is uncommon quality.
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