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Well-engraved map of the Americas, a reduced version of Hondius' map of 1631, with inset of Greenland. There are two sea monsters and two detailed sailing ships in the oceans, and the geographical peculiarities include a large western U.S. lake draining into the Gulf of California ("Mar Vermeo"), a large lake in Guiana, etc. California is in its pre-island configuration. Unlike many Merian maps, this is actually signed "M. Merian fecit" in the plate at lower right. Birden 251, plate 251; Wagner, Northwest Coast, 329.