- Bib ID:
- 1114910
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Speed, John, 1552?-1629
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. MAP NK 1529 copy
- Scale:
- Scale [1:110 000 000]
- Description:
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- [London] : George Humble, 1626
- 1 map : col. ; 2 hemispheres each 24.7 cm. diam. on sheet 40.5 x 53.4 cm.
- Series:
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- Rex Nan Kivell collection of maps.
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; Map NK 1529.
- 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 two insets, California shown as an island. Text on map in separate cartouches. Antartica named Magellanica, and four portrait miniatures of circumnavigators: Drake, Magellan, Candish and van der Noort. Relief shown pictorially.
- Text on verso. Initial with floral design ; spelling and printing partly revised. Running title: The generall [sic] descriptin of the world. Decorative top border.
- Two celestial spheres and plan of the heavens and elements with the earth at the centre ; diagrams of eclipses ; allegorical figures of 4 elements.
- MAP NK 1529 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230586915
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection Map NK 1529.
- 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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