- Bib ID:
- 2637140
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Speed, John, 1552?-1629
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. MAP NK 1530 copy
- Scale:
- Scale [1:110 000 000]
- Description:
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- [London] : George Humble, 1626
- 1 map ; 2 hemispheres each 24.7 cm. on a sheet 40.5 x 53.4 cm.
- Series:
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- Rex Nan Kivell collection of maps.
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; Map NK 1530.
- Notes:
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- "Are to be sold in pops head Alle [Pope's Head Alley by Geor. Humble."
- Double hemispherical map of the world, with 2 insets and 4 portrait miniatures of circumnavigators: Drake, Magellan, Candish and Van der Noort. California shown as an island ; comments on map in separate cartouches, Antarctica named Magellanica.
- From: Prospect of the world .../John Speed, London, 1627. Pl. 1.
- Text on verso. Initial with person in design. Running title: "The general description of the world." Decorative border at head.
- Two celestial spheres ; plan of the heavens and elements with the earth at the centre ; diagrams of eclipses ; allegorical figures of 4 elements.
- MAP NK 1530 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230587158
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection Map NK 1530.
- Cited In:
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- Phillips 442.
- Shirley 317.
- Subject:
- World maps -- Early works to 1800
- Time Coverage:
- 1614
- Other authors/contributors:
- Humble, George, -1640
- Related Records:
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- Copyright:
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- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1640
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1626
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