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.

Details

Subject(s)
Related name
Former owner
Library of Congress genre(s)
Getty AAT genre
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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