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Map of the North Pacific, 1630, by João Teixeira : a facsimile from the Library of Congress : onçeno mapa delas costas dela Asia y dela America Sentrional
Title
Map of the North Pacific, 1630, by João Teixeira : a facsimile from the Library of Congress : onçeno mapa delas costas dela Asia y dela America Sentrional.
Published
Washington : Library of Congress, 1985.
Physical Description
1 map : col. ; 42 x 67 cm., on sheet 53 x 80 cm.
Cartographic Detail
Scale [ca. 1:25,000,000] (E 121⁰--W 76⁰/N 80⁰--S 14⁰).
Notes
Covers northern Pacific Ocean and surrounding coasts. Shows coastal place-names.
Relief shown pictorially.
Title in Spanish. Geographic names and place-names in Portuguese.
Facsimile.
From a limited ed. of 500 copies.
Accompanied by text by John A. Wolter: Map of the North Pacific, 1630, drawn by João Teixeira, a facsimile. [4] p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bar scale, compass rose, and rhumb lines.
Original version: Onçeno mapa delas costas dela Asia y dela America Sentrional. 1 map : ms., hand col. Title added in upper margin between 1681 and 1692 by Don Francisco de Seixas y Lovera. From Teixeira'a atlas: Taboas geraes de toda a navegação / delineadas por Ioão Teixeira, cosmographo de sua magestade, anno de 1630. Atlas described as item 5931 in LeGear's A list of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, v. 5, 1958.
Variant and related titles
Onçeno mapa de las costas de la Asia y de la America Sentrional.
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
Spanish; English; Portuguese
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
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