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Title:
Map Maker: Theodore de Bry
Place / Date: Franckfurt 1655
Coloring: Black and white
Publication: Newe Welt und Americanische Historien
Size: (330 x 200 mm) x ( 160 x 185 mm)
Condition: Good condition
Description: Scarce print with a German text sheet. During Ralegh’s voyage up the Orinoco in search of El Dorado, he met an old man who said he was the king of Arromaia. He claimed to be one hundred and fourteen years old and with him he brought an entourage bearing gifts of fruit, vegetables and birds.
Ralegh questioned him about the ‘large, rich and beautiful empire of Guiana’ and the whereabouts of ‘the great and golden city of Manoa, which the Spanish called El Dorado’. He had described what he knew of the interior of the country, Ralegh thanked him for his help and the old man returned home. From de Bry's "Great American Voyages".
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