The Mercator map of South America

Michael Sparke, 1635 :
Southerne America. 5.5 x 7.25 inches. Excellent. $375.

The original set of Mercator maps acquired by Jodocus Hondius in 1604 included one of the Western Hemisphere, but not one South America by itself. Hondius added such a map to the folio map of 1606, and prepared a reduced version of it for the Atlas Minor of the following year. This map is struck from that same plate, here accompanied by English text, from a London issue of the Mercator Atlas.