Iucatana Regio et Fondura

Early copper-engraved map of southern Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.

This map was published in the first edition of Wytfliet's "Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum", the first atlas dedicated to the New World. According to historian and expert Jens P. Bornholt in his book "Cuatro Siglos de Expresiones Geograficas del Istmo Centroamericano" [Four Centuries of Geographical Expressions of the Central American Isthmus] published in 2007, it was the only 16th Century map to focus on Central America.



The physical features across the map are wonderfully illustrated with icons for mountain ranges, forests, cities, rivers and, in the centre of the map, three volcanoes are shown erupting. A decorative cartouche sits just below the southern coastline of Cuba, framed in Italianate strapwork.



Uncoloured. Strong impression. [WIND4375]