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Title: Insulæ Americanæ in Oceano Septentrionali ac regiones adiacentes, a C. de May usque ad Lineam Æquinoctialem

Dates

• Coverage: 1670
• Coverage: 1670 to 1670

Publishers

• Visscher

Summary

1 map: color; Relief shown pictorially; Shows southeastern North America as Florida with colony of Virginia, Pacific and Gulf coasts of Central America, northern coast of South America, and the West Indies; Includes illustrations; From his Atlas Minor; "For the French names on the Florida coast Visscher appears to have based his map on Mercator's Virginiae item et Floridae. nova descriptio 1606. The plate appears to be the same used with the same title by Janssón, 1642; Guilielmus Blaeu, 1644; Johannis Blaeu, 1667; Valck and Schenk, 1710 (?")--cf. Philip Lee Phillips. Scale approximately 1:9,250,000 (W 100°33ʹ00ʺ--W 50°13ʹ00ʺ/N 37°22ʹ00ʺ--S 0°23ʹ00ʺ).

Subjects

• 2022-07-26-language
• Early Maps of the Americas
• 2022-creator-sprint
• Mexico
• West Indies
• Central America
• Maps

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-100.55,-50.2167,37.3667,-0.3833)

Provider

University of Chicago

Rights

• Access rights: Public

Citation

Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702. Insulæ Americanæ in Oceano Septentrionali ac regiones adiacentes, a C. de May usque ad Lineam Æquinoctialem. Visscher. Early maps. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/maps/earlymapsamericas/G4390-1680-V5

Format

JPEG

Languages

• fre