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Novi orbis pars borealis, America scilicet

Novi orbis pars borealis, America scilicet

Descriptive Summary

Title: Novi orbis pars borealis, America scilicet
Creator: Quad, Matthias, 1557-1613
Inclusive Dates: 1600
Language(s): Latin
Extent: 1 item(s)
Extent: 1 map ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection Number: hmap1600q8
Repository: Hargrett Map Collection

Collection Description

Scope and Content

Relief shown pictorially; Based on Cornelis de Jode's map of America, showing Northwest passage, Virginia placed in New England area, and a peninsula, "Apalaco" west of Florida; Burden and Cumming attribute this map to Matthias Quad and refer to its appearance in works of 1600 and 1608; " ... apud Bryaeos imprimuntur" and "coloniae laminis Jani buxemechers"; Includes text; From: Quad, Matthias. Geographisch Handtbuch. Koln, 1600, Map 78; Cumming. Southeast in Early Maps, no. 24; Schwartz and Ehrenberg, p. 83; Publication: [Koln, Germany : s.n., 1600]


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Novi orbis pars borealis, America scilicet complectens Floridam, Baccalaon, Canadam, terram Corterialem, Virginiam, Norombecam, pluresque alias provincias, hmap1600q8, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.


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Maps (documents)
North America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.

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