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Author:   Jan Evertsen Cloppenburgh (*1571 – †1648) 

(sometimes Cloppenburgh; also H. Jan Evertsz and Johannes Everhardus) 

was a Dutch publisher active in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age. 

Map title:  America noviter delineata /Amsterdam/ 1630

Description: The map encompasses both North and South America, although North America continues into the neat line in the Arctic. South America ends with an unfinished Tierra del Fuego, suggesting that it might lead to more islands, or even a continent, farther south. Also of intereshe northern Atlantic islands of Frisland and Brasil. Hy Brasil is an enduring Atlantic chimera emerging from Celtic folklore.  The island was initially described as a rich paradise not unlike Atlantis; it emerged from the depths for a short period and then would disappear. It started to appear on portolan charts in the fourteenth century and continued to be a stalwart of maps and charts into the nineteenth century. The waters are filled with large ship vignettes. There are also two sea monsters, so the ships would do well to navigate with care