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America, sive novus orbis, tabulis Aeneis secundum rationes geographicas delineatus
Title
America, sive novus orbis, tabulis Aeneis secundum rationes geographicas delineatus / Ioannes Matalius Metellus Sequanus.
Publication
Coloniae Agrippinae [Cologne] : Excudebat Stephanus Hemmerden typographus, anno à partu Virgineo MDC [1600].
Physical Description
1 atlas ([84] pages) : illustrations, 20 maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Cartographic Detail
Scales differ (W 125°--W 13°/N 90°--S 90°).
Local Notes
BAC G1792.M38 1600 .E97+: Bound in contemporary vellum with: Europa tabulis aeneis 166 secundum rationes geographicas delineata; Asia tabulis aeneis secundum rationes geographicas delineata; Africa ad artis geographicae regulas tabulis aeri incisis descripta. Armorial binding on covers: Anthoni Fvgger [i.e. Fugger].
Notes
Relief depicted pictorially.
Signatures: pi² A-V².
Includes index on page [3].
Last page blank.
The catchword on A2v does not appear at the top of the next page, although according to the index the volume is complete.
With woodcut tailpieces throughout.
Included in Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts (VD 17), entry 14:702023S
Mentioned in entry 94 of The Lowery collection: a descriptive list of maps of the Spanish possessions within the present limits of the United States, 1502-1820.
Contains 20 maps that are copies of those in Wytfliet.--Ternaux-Compans.
Variant and related titles
America sive novvs orbis
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
Latin
Added to Catalog
September 23, 2014
Contents
Index tabularum geographicarum hoc opusculo contentarum: America, sive novus orbis
Quivira & Anian
Conibas Regio
Estotilandia & Terra Laboratoris
Nova Francia
Virginia
Florida
Nova Hispania
Nova Granata
Iucatana Regio, Fondura & Nicaragua
Cuba & Iamaica
Hispaniola
Castilia Nova, sive Aurifera
Paria, Cumana, & Cubagua
Brasilia
Plata
Peruvia
Chili
Chica
Mare Pacificum, vulgo Mar del Zur
References
Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), M 1349
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 48170
Ternaux-Compans, H. Bibliothèque américaine, 247
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Woodcuts.
Engravings.
Armorial bindings.
Also listed under
Germany Cologne,
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