America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the Nevv VVorld; : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither. The conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts. Also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers. Their habits, customs, manners, and religions. Their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents. With an appendix, containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown South-Land and the Arctick region.
Montanus's 1671 London account of the New World, printed by the author with John Ogilby's translation and based on the Dutch original, was written for English readers interested in the Americas. Its engraved maps and town views show coastlines, compass roses, decorated cartouches and small figures of natives and sailors, offering a designer period map borders, ornamental title panels and seventeenth-century cartographic detail.
