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Image Title
: A new and accurat map of the
world : drawne according to ye truest descriptions, latest discoueries & best obseruations yt haue beene made by English or strangers, 1651.
Additional Name(s)
: Bassett, Thomas -- Bookseller
Speed, John, 1552?-1629 -- Author
Chiswell, Richard -- Bookseller
Published Date
: [1676]
Item Physical Description
: 1 map : hand col. ; 2 hemispheres each 25 cm. in diam., on sheet 41 x 54 cm.
Notes
: From John Speed's Prospect of the most famous parts of the
world, 1676.
Note 2.) Imprint on map indicates this is 4th state, according to Shirley.
Note 3.) Includes ancillary
maps and diagrams of "The heavens and elements," "The eclipsie of the sunnie," "A figure of the spheare," and "The eclipse of the moonie," 2 celestial hemispheres, historical notes, and ill.
Note 4.) National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early
Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Note 5.) Relief shown pictorially.
Note 6.) Text on verso: The general description of the
world, [p.] 1-2. Signature: A. Catchword: the.
Standard Reference
: Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the World, 317
Source
: Maps of the World / Whole
Location
: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Catalog Call Number
: Map Div. 02-321 [Filed with
World, 1651]
Digital ID
: 464988
Record ID
: 292103
Digital Item Published
: 2-20-2004; updated 6-25-2010
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