America sive India Nova : ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui universalis imitationem in compendium redacta

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Title:
America sive India Nova : ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui universalis imitationem in compendium redacta
Title (alt.):
America siue India Nova
Creator:
Mercator, Michael, -1600
Name on Item:
per Michaelem Mercatorem
Date:
[1595]
Format:
Maps
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
Extent:
1 map ; 1 hemisphere, 34 cm. in diam., on sheet 41 x 54 cm.
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https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/hq37vv826
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Publisher:
Duysburgensem : [Rumold Mercator]
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:70,000,000]
Language:
Latin
Notes:
Relief shown pictorially.
Includes notes and decorative floral border.
Ancillary maps: Golfo Mexicano -- Cuba -- Haiti nunc Hispaniola.
On verso: America. Printer's signature: E.
From the 1595 or 1602 edition of Atlantis pars altera.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America, 87
Koeman-Krogt. Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, 9000:1A
Identifier:
1353

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