Mapping the New Discoveries
Diego Gutiérrez, compiler
(active 1554-1570)
Hieronymous Cock, engraver
(1510-ca.1570)
Americae sive quartae orbis
partis
nova et exactissima descriptio.
[Antwerp]: 1562
Geography & Map Division
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For sixteenth-century Europeans, the most authoritative
information about the Americas was obtained from returning explorers
and navigators. Each pilot who accompanied a Spanish exploring
expedition had to deposit the logs and charts with the Casa
de Contratación (Board of Trade) in Seville, which
became the repository for Spanish travel information about the
Americas. This large map, one of only two existing copies, was
compiled by Diego Gutiérrez--a chart and instrument maker
and pilot who worked for the board. The map provided current information
about the people, settlements, and other geographical features
of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America and all of Central
and South America.
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