1597 Cornelis Wytfliet Early Antique Map of Florida, Louisiana, North America France Prevost\'s squirrel (Callosciurus prevostii)

Prevost\'s squirrel (Callosciurus prevostii)

with German text & page number 39A on the verso

The woodblock map is elegantly engraved in the style of copper engravings

lying at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples

discovered the Falkland Sound and noted the islands water and game

1597 Cornelis Wytfliet Early Antique Map of Florida, Louisiana, North America France Prevost\'s squirrel (Callosciurus prevostii)Title : Florida et Apalche Size: 15in x 12in (380mm x 305mm) Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Date : 1597 Ref #: 41717 Description: A fine original antique, and incredibly important map of the southern United States, one of only 3 maps printed prior to 1600, to depict this area with any accuracy, was published by Cornelis van Wytfliet in the 1597 edition of Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum. Wytfliet copied information from the Abraham Ortelius 1584