ORTELIUS, A. - Culiacanae Americae regionis.. / Hispaniolae, Cubae..

Two separate virtually identically sized inset maps on one sheet, each with a decorative scroll title cartouche. Culiacanae depicts the coastal and inland western region in North central Mexico, the present state of Sinaloa. Just off shore is a rather long, thin island which has been suggested, without much acceptance, if any, as the first or very early depiction of California as an island. The other inset shows much if not most of the West Indies and the Bahamas, one of the earliest maps to do so.