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Kashnor notes, "Remarkable from its showing of California as a peninsula, the earliest American cartographers having more correct ideas than their immediate successors. Tierra del Fuego appears, however, as part of that immense southern continent which so long obsessed the minds of geographers. The Philippines and New Guinea also appear, the latter as an island. In the midst of the ocean is a fine cut representing a galleon in full sail, with the following verse: "Prima ego velivolis ambivi cursibus Orbem, Magallane novo te duce ducta freto. Ambivi, meritoque vocor Victoria: sunt mi Vela, alae; precium, gloria; pugna, mare." [No maps showed California as an island prior to 1624 with the exception of Cortez' earlier manuscript map giving him domain over offshore islands.] Appeared in information based on Van der Krogt and Burden: was published in Van der Krogt, atlas 31:040. Cartouches: Two, one around dedication with heading "Spe et Metu" (Hope and Fear). MS notes: New Guinea --- von Sudd America. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: no. Projection: Conic. Watermark: Crossed arrows. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Burden, map 74; Van der Krogt, map 0600:31. Verso Text: Latin text: Mare Pacificum siue Del Zur; no signature. MS notes: 149499 250 .02.
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