Americae nova descriptio

Description:

Relief shown pictorially. Shows Tierra del Fuego as an island. Along bottom: Prima orbis circumnavigatio 1525. Secunda orbis circumnavigatio 1580. Tertia orbis circumnavigatio 1588. Quatra orbis circumnavigatio 1601. Emblem above title cartouche: Wie Gaet Ick Keere". Decorative cartouches, pictorial vignettes of cities, islands, and figures around border, descriptive text, rhumb lines, ports, ships, boating figures, sea monsters. Portraits of explorers: Christophorus Columbus...; Americus Vesputius...; Ferdinandis Magellanus...; Franciscus Dracus...; Thomas Candish...; Olivarius. Illustrations of inhabitants: Virginiani; Magellanici; Brasiliani; Magellanici; Virginiani; Chili; Brasiliani; Magellanici. Inset map shows north pole: Polus Arcticus.

Creator:

Keere, Pieter van den, 1571-approximately 1646

Publisher:

Petrus Kaerius excudit

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Subject:

Discovery and exploration

Date Issued:

1614

Spatial Coverage:

America, North America, South America, North Pole, Greenland, and Iceland

Rights:

Images from the The Renaissance Exploration Collection courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

Rights Holder:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

More details at:

https://purl.stanford.edu/ks356zj7198