Old North & South America Map, 1544 by Munster - First Printed Atlas of the Americas - USA, Mexico, Pre-Colonisation Size:12x16in (30x40cm) The first ever printed map

The first ever printed map of of the Americas

River Thames

engraved by master engraver Henricus Van Langren

There's an incredible level of detail here - there's so many towns shown that they almost join together

large prints of this map up to 170 inches (430cm) wide

Old North & South America Map, 1544 by Munster - First Printed Atlas of the Americas - USA, Mexico, Pre-Colonisation Size:12x16in (30x40cm) The first ever printed mapThe first ever printed map of of the Americas, originally published in 1552 by Sebastian Munster in Basel, Switzerland. It's presented here in beautiful condition with a full latitude and longitude border and original handcolouring. While this is technically a correct map of the continents of North and South America, with a mostly correct coastline, you can clearly see that there's a lot of weird cartography going on here. Zoom into the listing images