Details

Subject(s)

• America—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Related name

• Petri, Heinrich, 1508-1579 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—America—1572 [Browse]
• Maps—Western Hemisphere—1572 [Browse]

Related work(s)

Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552. Cosmographia. Latin [Browse]

Notes

• Relief shown pictorially.
• Covers North and South America, with northeast coast of Asia and west coast of Africa.
• Author attribution by Burden and Kershaw.
• State 12, with title change, according to Kershaw.
• Appears in Münster's Cosmographia, 1572.
• Includes ill.
• Latin text and page no. on verso: Nouarum insularum descriptio ... 26.
• Historic Maps copy corresponds to Kershaw 12c, with the addition of the overprinted words "Die Nüw Welt", as seen in German editions.
• Historic Maps copy has annotations in a contemporary hand on map verso.

References

• Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America 12, state 13
• Kershaw, K.A. Early printed maps of Canada 12c, state 12

Other title(s)

• Novae insvlae
• Nüw Welt

OCLC

177796095

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