TOTIVS AMERICAE NOVA ET EXACTA TABVLA EX OPTIMIS TVM GEOGRAPHORVM TVM ALIORVM SCRIPTIS COLLECTA ET AD HODIERNAM REGNORVM PRINCIPATVVM ET MAIORVM PARTIVM DISTINCTIONEM ACCOMMODATA PER GVLIELMV BLAEW AMSTELODAMI M D C LXXIX

Description:

Dated M DC LXX (1670). Dated M DC LXXIX (1679); CANADA and NVOVA FRANCIA are named, and the MARE DI/VIRGINIA is enlarged. Dimensions: 52.9 x 88.8 cm.; 57.3 x 91.5 cm. including title and border. Martayan Lan Augustyn Inc., N.Y., who state that another known copy exists in Bibliotheque Nationale. See also: Riston, Walter W., "America and Africa: Two Seventeenth-Century Wall Maps", A la Carte: Selected papers on maps and atlases, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1972, p. 63-75; Burden 408 (Plate 408). Si vendono per Gio: Giacomo Rossi. California as an island with nearly flat northern coast and with many coastal place names. Terra incognita, Anien, and N. Albion to its north. The Great Lakes are missing. Inset map: North polar projection (bottom left), with decorative border of scrollwork, fruit, and standing figures of Adam and Eve (Eve on the left). Banner title, in large capital letters, along top of map. Si vendono per Gio: Giacomo Rossi in Roma all'insegna di Parigi alla Pace (bottom right). Very similar to Mariette's French map of 1647 (Entry 9), with nearly identical title.Separately published.

Creator:

Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de, 17th cent.

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Subject:

America--Maps and California as an island--Maps

Theme:

Imagery

Rights:

Image from the Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island 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.

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