A New and most Exact map of AMERICA Described by N I Vischer and don into English Enlarged and corrected acording to I Bleau and Others with the Habits of ye people & ye manner of ye Cheife sitties ye like never before - UC Berkeley GeoData
A New and most Exact map of AMERICA Described by N I Vischer and don into English Enlarged and corrected acording to I Bleau and Others with the Habits of ye people & ye manner of ye Cheife sitties ye like never before
1668, “Printed Colloured and are to be sould by John Overton at ye White horse in Little Brittaine neare the Hospitall, 1668” [1671], with the date erased and the address changed to: Printed...by Iohn Overton at ye White hourse neere the Fountaine Tavern Without Newgate. Issued in Lewes Roberts, The Merchants Map of Commerce and Robert Fage, Cosmography, both 1671. Tooley 24 (Plate 39); Leighly 50 and 61; Wagner 406; Burden 401 (Plate 401). California of Briggs type, with flat northern coast. Side borders of costume figures and top and bottom borders of views of cities and portraits of navigators. Inset: Partial Polar projection, which includes Straits of Anian but shows California place names on North America. Originally drawn and issued by Petrus Kerre] Kaerius in 1614.
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