Rare with Map of Eldorado and South America - Walter Raleigh - Hulsius - 1599 - Brevis & admiranda descriptio regni Guianae, auri abundantissimi, in America japan rivers and ports

rivers and ports

His work demonstrates the shift from traditional methods to a more modern style with increasing Western influence

which fixed the name America in European consciousness

This part contained a description of the voyage of Sebald de Weert which attempted to reach the Spice Islands from Holland by way of the Staits of Magellan in 1598

Rare with Map of Eldorado and South America - Walter Raleigh - Hulsius - 1599 - Brevis & admiranda descriptio regni Guianae, auri abundantissimi, in America japan rivers and portsBrevis & admiranda descriptio regni Guianae, auri abundantissimi, in America, seu novo orbe, sublinea aequinoctilia siti: Quod nuper admodum, annis nimirum 1564 [i. e. 1594]. 1595 & 1596. "A Brief and Admirable Description of the Kingdom of Guiana, most Abundant in Gold, in America, or in the New World, Situated under the Line of the Equator: 1594, 1595, 1596" Published in Nuremberg by Levinus Hulsius in 1599. Complete: [6], 12, [2] pp with engraved