KAART VAN HET MIDDELSTE DEEL van AMERICA

Description:

Issued in his: Nieuwe reystogt rondom de werreld, [several volumes bound together] / In’t Engelsch beschreeven door William Dampier, en daarupt bertaald door W. Sewel. -- In’s Gravenhage : by Abraham de Hondt, 1698. [date for first section]. Final section dated 1715. Includes map showing Pacific tradewinds entitled: Een Schets van de Algemene PASSAAD WINDEN in de groote ZUYD ZEE. No. 2, 2.Deel.P.205. Lower part of California is shown. Map seems to be copied by Bellin/Cosmant/Schley in 1747. Sabin 18373. Lower portion of California is shown and labeled CALIFORNIA I. Shape of California is unusual, with wide central area coming to a point at the south. Includes region of Amazon River northward to Maryland. Inset map: The Isles of CAPE VERD (top right). In Dutch, with title: KAART VAN HET MIDDELSTE DEEL van AMERICA. California unchanged. Title cartouche of simple box (top left). Inset map entitled: de Eylanden van CAPO VERDE (top right). Page 20 (to left of inset map). [Herman Moll].

Creator:

Moll, Herman, -1732

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Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Subject:

California as an island--Maps

Theme:

Imagery

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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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