Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula, auct: Guiljelmo Blaeuw.

Author
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
[Amsterdam], [1635]
Description
  • Scale [ca. 1:90,000,000]. (W 180°00ʹ00ʺ--E 180°00ʹ00ʺ/N 90°00ʹ00ʺ--S 90°00ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map : hand col. ; 29 x 43 cm., on sheet 49 x 61 cm.

Details

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Library of Congress genre(s)
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Notes
  • Relief shown pictorially.
  • Inset maps: the Arctic; the Antarctic.
  • Text on verso: Description de l'univers.
  • From: Le theatre du monde ... / mis en lumiere par Guillaume et Iean Blaeu. Amsterdami : Apud Iohannem Guiljemi Blaeu, 1643-1655.
  • Includes notes, ornamental cartouches and border of figures & vignettes.
  • Historic Maps copy is state 4 as described in: Shirley, R. The mapping of the world.
References
  • Wheat, C. I. Mapping Transmississippi West, no. 46
  • Lowery 134
  • Wagner, H. R. Cartog. NW coast 320
  • Koeman, C. Atlantes neerlandici I, p. 111
  • Shirley 255
OCLC
21804934
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