Atlas contractus sive mapparum geographicarum / Sansoniarum auctarum et correctarum nova co...

A hand-colored engraved map of North and South America entitled "AMERICA SEPTENTRIONALIS atque MERIDIONALIS". The map features two elaborate decorative cartouches: one at the top left containing the title and figures of Native Americans and a European traveler; another at the bottom left depicting Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World with scenes of indigenous people and a religious figure. In the top right, there is an inset map of the North Pole and a table of geographical coordinates. The bottom right contains multiple scale bars.

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It seemed appropriate to add here the location of the principal islands and ports, etc., as determined by various sailors through celestial observations, so that their position on this map might be more certain.

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Christopher Columbus of Genoa first discovered the face of America in the year 1492. However, it took its name from Amerigo Vespucci of Florence, who first described this part of the new world more accurately, and explored it under Ferdinand, King of Castile and Leon, in the years 1497 and 1499, and then under Manuel, King of Portugal, in the year 1501.

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CANADIAN SEA
NORTH SEA Atlantic Ocean
ATLANTIC OCEAN
SOUTH SEA OR PACIFIC OCEAN
ETHIOPIAN OCEAN
MAGELLANIC SEA

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