Americae descrip.

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Title: Americae descrip.
Varying Form of Title: Caption above map: Hondius his map of America; Title at top of page: Chap. 1. How farre America hath bin discovered. Nature of the Loadstone.
Item Description: Back
Main Entry - Personal Name: Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80024484 http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|n80024484
Added Entry - Personal Name: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50035949 http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|n50035949; Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50049290 http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|n50049290
Published: [London : William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1626?]
Description: 1 map : hand col. ; 14 x 19 cm.
Note: 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.
Subject Added Entry - Geographic Name: Western Hemisphere Maps Early works to 1800. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007207; America Maps Early works to 1800. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004220
Map Data: Scale [ca. 1:100,000,000] (W 195°--W 15°/N 60°--S 60°).
Coded Cartographic Mathematical Data: a 100000000 W1950000 W0150000 N0600000 S0600000
Local note: Gift of Tom Beauvais, 2010.
Scan Date: 2012-11-27
Record No.: 008781182

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Collection: UM Clark Library Maps
Image Size: 3448 x 5472
File Size: 2 MB
Record: 008781182
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