Dedicated to Jacobo Dno. Compton, Honmi. Comitis Northamptoniae, with coat of arms between the two hemispheres. Pag : 2. (lower left). Issued with similar world map (Entry #1011), which shows the modern world with all of the continents named. Issued in: Geographia Emendata & Locupletata, / Dionysius Periegetes, 1688. Reissued in 1704, 1718 (Editio tertia), 1726 (Editio quarta, with Typis Guil. Bowyer), and 1738 (Editio quinta, with Typis T. Wood). Edvardus Wells. California with a single indentation along the northern coast and blank to its north. The continents in the western hemisphere are unnamed as they were unknown to the ancients. Shirley 541 (Plate 379); UCLA.
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