Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova [map].

Author
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
  • Latin
  • Dutch
Published/​Created
[Amsterdami : I. and C. Blaeu?, 1640?]
Description
  • Scale [ca. 1:3,300,000]. (W 77°30ʹ00ʺ--W 66°15ʹ00ʺ/N 49°20ʹ00ʺ--N 35°15ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map : hand col. ; 37 x 48 cm.

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Notes
  • Relief shown pictorially.
  • Covers New England and the Middle Atlantic states from Penobscot Bay south to the mouth of Chesapeake Bay.
  • Appears in Willem and Joan Blaeu's Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive Atlas novus, 1640 and other eds.
  • Oriented with north to the right.
  • Includes decorative cartouche and ill.
  • Text on verso: Belgica Nova et Nova Anglia.
Language note
Title in Latin; placenames in Latin, Dutch, and vernacular languages; text on verso in Latin.
Provenance
Historic Maps copies from the estate of N.B. Fox, Princeton class of 1899.
References
  • Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America 241
  • Deak, G.G. Picturing America 27
  • Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici I, p. 130
  • Stokes, I.N.P. Iconography of Manhattan Island II, p. 143-144
  • McCorke., B. New England in early printed maps 635.1
OCLC
46842203
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