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Map of the world by the Spanish cosmographer Alonzo de Santa Cruz, 1542 [cartographic material] : reproduction in phototypic facsimile by the Printing Office of the Swedish Staff-General with explanations by E.W. Dahlgren, Secretary of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography
Bib ID 3313295
Format MapMap, OnlineOnline
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Scale Scale ("1 equatorial degree equals 17 1/2 Spanish leagues"--Explanations, p. 12). 
Description Stockholm, [Sweden] : Royal Printing Office, 1892. 
5 plates ; 60 cm. + explanations (47 p. ; 27 cm.) 
Notes

" ... The globe is divided into two hemispheres ... composed respectively of 36 gores ... the whole represents a globe with a radius of 194.8 millimetres"--Explanations, p. 10.

Includes discoveries up to 1539.

Dedicated to Baron Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, the great explorer, the distinguished scholar, the most eminent authority on early chartography on the sixieth anniversary of his birthday, the 18th November 1892.

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http:/­/­nla.gov.au/­nla.map-rm1938

Subjects World maps - Early works to 1800 - Facsimiles.  |  World - 1892 - Maps.
Other authors/contributors Dahlgren, E. W. (Erik Wilhelm), 1848-1934  |  Santa Cruz, Alonso de, 1505-1567

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