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van der Aa
Amerika of de Nieuwe Weereld


Certificate of Authentication


This is to certify that the item illustrated and described below is a genuine antique
map, print or book that was first produced and published in 1706, today 318 years ago.
December 5, 2024

Dr Leendert Helmink, Ph.D.
Cartographer(s)

van der Aa

First Published

Leiden, 1706

This edition

1706 or later

Size

15.0 x 22.5 cms

Technique

Copper engraving

Stock number

18799

Condition

excellent

Antique map of America by van der Aa
Antique map of America by van der Aa

Description

Rare map of the Americas by Pieter van der Aa. With California as an island, showing Drake's Nova Albion. The map includes many of the discoveries in the Pacific Oceean.

Very decorative title cartouche featuring Christopher Columbus, his fleet, and many navigational instruments.



Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733)


Records show that van der Aa, born in Leiden in 1659, made an early start in life by being apprenticed to a bookseller at the age of nine and starting his own in business as a book publisher by the time he was twenty-three.

During the following fifty years he published an enormous amount of material including atlases and illustrated works in every shape and size, two of them consisting of no less than 27 and 28 volumes containing over 3,000 maps and plates.

(Moreland & Bannister).