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Novus Brasiliae typus
Title
Novus Brasiliae typus.
Published
Amstelodami : Guiljelmus Blaeuw excudit, [ca. 1638]
Physical Description
1 map ; 35.8 X 47.6 CM.
Cartographic Detail
Scale [ca. 1:7 000 000] (W 52⁰30ʹ00ʺ--W 32⁰30ʹ00ʺ/N 2⁰00ʹ00ʺ--S 29⁰00ʹ00ʺ).
Local Notes
BEIN Cross 911 1640: Sheet measures 50.1 x 59.7 cm. Cross Collection no. 340.
Notes
Relief shown pictorially.
Oriented with north to the right.
Title cartouche and interior area of map decorated with scenes of native Brazilians.
Bar scales in "Milliaria Germanica communia" and "Milliaria Gallica communia."
In French on verso, with caption titles "Le Brasil" and "Description de Brasil prise de Maffée," with signature Q.
From Willem Janszoon Blaeu's Le theatre du monde ... (1638) and Joan and Cornelis Blaeu's Le theatre du monde ... (1640).
Variant and related titles
Novus Brasiliae typvs
Inset title: Baya de todos os Sanctos
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
Latin
Added to Catalog
November 14, 2008
References
Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, II, p. 602 (map 9850:2A.2)
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Maps.
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