Quarte partie du monde

Title:: Quarte partie du monde
Title (alt.):: Qvarte partie du monde
Title in Wheat: Nouveau monde descouvert et illustre de nostre temps
Creator:: Thevet, André, 1502-1590
Contributor:: L'Huillier, Pierre
Name on Item:: And. Thevet, cosmographe du roy
Date:: [1575]
Format:: Maps/Atlases
Location:: Phillips Academy
Collection (local):: Sidney R. Knafel Map Collection at Phillips Academy, Andover MA
Subjects:: America--Maps--Early works to 1800
Western Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800
Pacific Ocean--Maps--Early works to 1800
Extent:: 1 map ; 33 x 43 cm.
Terms of Use:: Rights status not evaluated.
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Publisher:: [Paris] : [P. l'Huilier]
Scale:: Scale [ca. 1:52,000,000]
Language:: French
Notes:: Relief shown pictorially.
Prime meridian: Ferro.
Covers also parts of eastern Asia, New Guinea and Antarctica.
Includes text and ill. of ships, sea monsters, trees, fires and human figures.
From Thevet's Cosmographie universelle, vol. 2 following p. 936.
Notes (date):: This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):: Wheat, C.I. Mapping the transmississippi West, 18
Lowery, 61
Suarez, T. Shedding the veil, 32
Identifier:: 1320