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Description

Decorative map of America, showing California as an Island. Includes incomplete Great Lakes, unknown NW Coast of America, highly inaccurate mapping of the Mississippi River, the 7 Cities of Cibola and a largely incomplete knowledge of the region which would become New Zealand. South America misprojected in a very wide fashion. California in the Sanson Model. The second state of the map, which adds text at the bottom. McLaughlin 168-2, Tooley 74; Leighly 127.

Pieter van der Aa Biography

Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733) was a Dutch mapmaker and publisher who printed pirated editions of foreign bestsellers and illustrated books, but is best known for his voluminous output of maps and atlases. Van der Aa was born to a German stonecutter from Holstein. Interestingly, all three van der Aa sons came to be involved in the printing business. Hildebrand was a copper engraver and Boudewyn was a printer.