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Americae sive novi orbis nova descriptio [cartographic material]
Bib ID 1253047
Format MapMap, OnlineOnline
Author
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
 
Online Versions
Scale Scale indeterminable. 
Description Barking, England : Elsevier, 1964 
1 map : col. ; 35 x 48 cm. 
Collection Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; Map NK 10921. 
Notes

"Original copy ... belongs to the Library of the State University of Leyden [Netherlands] ... reproduced from the first impression of the first edition [of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1570, Aegidius Coppen Diesth]".

Facsim. of: Antverpiae, 1570.

Map of America with relief shown pictorially.

Nova Guinea merges with Magellanica, Terra del Fuego and the austral continent.

Text on verso.

Rex Nan Kivell Collection Map NK 10921.

Cited In

Phillips, 374

Subjects America - Maps - Early works to 1800.  |  America - Maps - Facsimiles.  |  New Guinea - Maps - Early works to 1800.  |  New Guinea - Maps - Facsimiles.
Time Coverage 1570 
Other authors/contributors Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. Theatrum orbis terrarum

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