Americæ nova tabula [map] / auct. Guiljelmo Blaeuw.

Author
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
[Amsterdam? : Blaeu?, 164-?]
Description
  • Scale [ca. 1:45,000,000]. (W 175°00ʹ00ʺ--E 0°01ʹ00ʺ/N 80°00ʹ00ʺ--S 60°00ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map : hand col. ; 36 x 45 cm., on sheet 41 x 56 cm.

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Special Collections - Rare Books Historic Map Collection HMC01.130 D Alcove 14, Drawer 12 Browse related items Reading Room Request
    Special Collections - Rare Books Historic Map Collection HMC01.131 D Alcove 14, Drawer 14 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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      Library of Congress genre(s)
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      Notes
      • Relief shown pictorially.
      • Text in French on verso; signature A; catchword l'or.
      • From : Le theatre du monde ... [Amsterdam : W. Blaeu, 1645?]
      • State 5, 1645+, according to Burden; newly engraved sea around embellishments, especially in area found within 10⁰ and 20⁰ S, 240⁰ and 250⁰ longitude, showing many horizontal lines lacking any waves.
      • Includes ill., text, and inset of Greenland area.
      • Historic Maps copy 2 mounted on cardboard, with loss of text on verso.
      Source acquisition
      Historic Maps copy 1 is from the estate of N.B. Fox, Class of 1899.
      References
      Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America, 189
      Other title(s)
      Americae nova tabula
      OCLC
      85766429
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