This map is the only known copy of the 1507 world map using the name "America" and depicting the Pacific Ocean as a separate body of water.

For over 350 years the map was housed in a 16th century castle belonging to the prince's family at Wolfegg in Southern Germany. The map, in pristine condition, originally belonged to Johann Schoner(1477-1557), a Nuremburg astronomer/geographer. Long thought lost, the 1507 treasure was rediscovered in the castle in 1901.