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Title: Americae descrip

Contributors:

Alternate titles

  • Americae descrip.

Dates

  • Coverage: 1626
  • Coverage: 1626 to 1626

Summary

1 map : hand col. ; 14 x 19 cm.

Relief shown pictorially.

Title in strapwork cartouche.

Heading on verso: American seas: Spanish course and customes in those navigations. Lib. V.

Descriptive text on verso in English.

On pp. 857 and 858.

From Purchas his pilgrimes.

Matches Burden's description.

Subjects

  • Butterfly map.
  • Shipping Maps.
  • Steamboat lines Maps.
  • sprint-2021-05
  • 2022-creator-sprint
  • 202212bbox
  • Americas
  • Maps

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-169.3,-34.8,72.7,-57.5)

Provider

University of Michigan

Rights

  • Access rights: Public
  • This map is in the public domain.

Citation

Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594, Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626. Americae descrip. Early maps. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clark1ic/x-008781182/39015091196587_01

Format

JPEG

Languages

  • lat