[Printed on silk] Nova Totius Americae Sive Novi Orbis Tabula, Auct. Hugo Allardt.

Hugo Allard’s ca. 1661 map of the Americas, showing California as an island printed on silk. This separately issued map printed on paper is quite rare on the market. The Antique Map Price Record locates only two copies sold in the trade (Jonathan Potter, 2006 and raremaps.com ) on the market and an uncolored example in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

The Great Lakes are not depicted, although an enlarged St. Lawrence River, labeled L. Contenant, is open on its western end.
The northwestern coast of North America has California drawn as an island.

In South America is a large rectangular lake in the north of the continent, the famous "Parime Lacus". The lake was associated with the El Dorado myth and frequently featured on early modern European maps. Tierra del Fuego appears as an island unconnected to a massive southern continent.

Two bays on California’s northern coast, Tolaago and R.de Estiete, and a peninsula on the mainland coast, Agubela de Cato, were perhaps introduced by Nicolas Sanson in his 1636 map. Blaeu is also a source for the northeast of North America. Geographically, the map is identical to Frederick de Wit’s carte a figures map of 1660.

Along the bottom, there are richly illustrated scenes depicting Europeans interacting with native people. Images of ships with red flags are depicted in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

This map was, according to Philip Burden, separately published and was not part of a larger publication such as an atlas. It was engraved by Jan van den Velde. Its date of publication cannot be ascertained exactly. Still, according to Burden, it could not have been published before 1660, when Frederick De Wit’s geographically identical map was published, as Burden believes Allard’s is the later of the two.