Hondius, Henricus.

America septentrionalis.

      Amsterdam: [1636]. Oblong large folio, 21.5 x 18.5 ins [462mm by 546mm]. Fully colored, framed but not glazed. In very good condition. State 1, with the cartouche bottom left blank. Latin text. Burden 245. Leighly #10 and plate 5. Goss North America 30. McLaughlin 6. “The first Dutch atlas map of North America and the first... to show California as an island... Important as this map is in its cartographic detail, the decorative appeal of Jansson’s work is heightened by the inclusion of numerous small illustrations of native fauna: buffalo, caribou, Arctic foxes, polar bears... while the title-cartouche shows the figures of Floridan and Virginian Indians...” (Goss).