AN ANTIQUE MAP, "Novus Orbis sive America Meridionalis et Septentrionalis," AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1740, hand colored engraving on paper, published by Matthaus Seutter (1687-1757), one cartouche with a scene of Genoese men at a table, centered by a personification of the Church, and flanked by penitent indigenous figures before an altar table gifting gold coins and jewelry, in the background are North American indigenous straw dwellings, the lower cartouche with a pelican, cockatiel, toucan, and flying sawtooth shark, above indigenous figures bearing woven lidded baskets, lumber, sugar loaves in a zigzag basket, a female figure chews leaves, spitting them into a pitcher at the feet of a shaded king, scenes of hammock living, tobacco and sugar cane harvesting, the map showing California as an island, upper margin inscribed in ink, "ZZZ." 19 3/4" x 23" Note: Map of the Americas.