Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova [map].

Author
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
  • Latin
  • Dutch
Published/​Created
[T'Amsterdam : I. Blaeu, 1642?]
Description
  • Scale [ca. 1:3,200,000]. (W 80°00ʹ00ʺ--W 66°40ʹ00ʺ/N 49°20ʹ00ʺ--N 35°20ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map : hand col. ; 37 x 49 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 Toonneel des Aerdrycx, oft Nieuwe atlas, 1642 and other eds.
  • Oriented with north to the right.
  • Includes decorative cartouche and ill.
  • Text on verso: Nieuw-Nederlandt, en Nieuw-Engelandt.
Language note
Title in Latin; placenames in Latin, Dutch, and vernacular languages; text on verso in Dutch.
Provenance
Historic Maps copy is 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. 141
  • Stokes, I.N.P. Iconography of Manhattan Island, II, p. 143-144
OCLC
46842234
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