PLATE 34. Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio, from Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Antwerp: Christoffel Plantijn, 1587; 1st ed. Coppenium Diesth, 1570). The title cartouches were copied
from the pattern books of Italian Renaissance sculptors. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Gift of Dr. Seymour Schwartz (CA 15509 no. 2).
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