General Land Office
probably in Montreal in 1687
including notes on early explorers such as De Soto and La Sale
which was at the time a notable center both for cartography and for illumination
What remains remarkable about Redouté’s watercolors for Les Liliacées is that they have remained clean and fresh
Braun & Hogenberg, [Mexico City, Mexico & Cusco, Peru] bayer_11_17 General Land OfficeBRAUN, Georg (1541 1622) & HOGENBERG, Frans (1535 1590). [Mexico City, Mexico & Cusco, Peru] Mexico, Regia et Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas[With] Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput. Engraved map with original hand color. From Civitas Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, c. 1588. 16" x 21 1 8" sheet. An attractive example of Braun & Hogenberg's views of Mexico City and Cusco, among the earliest printed views of any American city. Published in Bruan and