Occidentalis Americae partis : vel earum regionum quas Christophorus Columbus primũ detexit tabula chorographicaè multorum auctorum scriptis, praesertim verò ex Hieronymi Benzoni (quitotis XIIII annis eas provincias diligenter perlustravit)

Creator

Theodor de Bry , 1528-1598

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Document Type

Map

Physical Location

G4390 1594 .B7

Contributors

Girolamo Benzoni,1519-1572? ; Johann Feyerabend,1550-1599 (printer)

Date of Creation

anno M D XCIIII, 1594

Publication

Francofurti ad Moenvm : Typis Ioannis Feyrabend

Language

Latin

Description

Shows the West Indies and Florida, portions of what became the southern United States, Central America and northern South America. Includes coat of arms in top left corner, historical notes, sailing ships, sea monsters and compass rose on the Tropic of Cancer line. Geographic coordinates converted to Greenwich. Map is believed to be based on the charts of Girolamo Benzoni, who explored the New World between 1541 and 1556. Florida is derived from the Le Moyne map of 1591. It is one of the earliest maps to detail northern South America and one of the few Caribbean maps of the period. The islands of the West Indies are represented disproportionately large, and the Bahamas with the Islands Bahama and Lucaya are placed too far north.

Map Scale

Scale approximately 1:800,000 -- (W 91°--W 57°/N 21°--N 4°)

Part of

Allen Lastinger Center for Florida History