AN ANTIQUE MAP, "Americæ Mappa Generalis," 1746, hand colored engraving, published by Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724) with special acknowledgement to Johann Matthias Hase (1684-1742) and August Gottlieb Boehme (1719-1797), showing the known lands of the western hemisphere, the title cartouche with two explosive volcanoes, possibly referencing the Tres Vírgenes, erupting over a male and female Indigenous American shaded by a date tree and standing over sugarcane and cotton bales, flanked by a Brazilian merchant with parrot, umbrella and attendant, he stands over lumber and a vessel of cast gold bars or natural minerals, plate: 19 1/4" x 22 1/2".