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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 1865598, member: 6444&quot;]Antique maps are almost always taken from books. I assume that is the case with the one you show, in which case yours is too large to be an original printing. Let alone that the table is much newer than 400 years and no one in their right mind would glue such an old map to the top of a table (where it would very soon be destroyed). Or that you haven&#039;t considered whether yours is made of a material (laid paper or parchment) that would have been available then. Plus there are large differences (e.g. the ship drawing) with the original copy linked to below. If you aren&#039;t convinced, measure it, decide what it is printed on, and do further research. There is a copy at the National Library of the Netherlands so you can start there if you can&#039;t find a copy at an antique map dealer: <a href="https://fiodahistoriatextos.blogspot.com/2017/02/portuguese-discoveries-cartography.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://fiodahistoriatextos.blogspot.com/2017/02/portuguese-discoveries-cartography.html" rel="nofollow">https://fiodahistoriatextos.blogspot.com/2017/02/portuguese-discoveries-cartography.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an original of the map from that link.</p><p><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dX3k_-inFSk/WKc9p-u1FoI/AAAAAAAAB0o/B_Yxevq5s30gdNzY4XnDdRQdU7S1nl3AQCLcB/s1600/035%2BImagem%2B035.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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