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Burden, The Mapping of North America II, 415; Tooley’s Dic. of Mapm. Rev. Ed. K – P, S. 272 (Arnoldus Montanus, c. 1625-1683. ‘De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld’, Amsterdam 1671 <considered first encyclopaedia of the Americas>, English translation published by John Ogilby as America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World …, London, J. Ogilby 1671 <included regional maps>). – Showing Mexico with the Yucatán peninsula, Central America with Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua the Pacific coast from the Gulf of California with Sinaloa (Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa) to Costa Rica, the Gulf of Mexico (Golfo De Nueva Espana) from Texas to Florida and the western part of Cuba. – Bottom left title cartouche with natives and Dutch merchant. – In the Pacific compass rose (Mar Del Zur).