Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594

Description

1. 1 map : hand col.; 37 x 48 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 461.
2. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subject

1. Atlantic Coast (U.S.) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
2. New England -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
3. Middle Atlantic States -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
4. Virginia -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
5. New England -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Map Div. 97-6087

Language

1. Latin

Note

1. Covers the east coast of North America from Nova Scotia to North Carolina.
2. Relief shown pictorially.
3. Text on verso: The description of New England, p. 442, 441. Catchword: by.
4. Appears in Gerhard Mercator's Atlas, or, A geographicke description of the regions, countries, and kingdomes of the world. 1636.

Indexed in (note)

1. Cumming
2. Stokes. Iconography

Language (note)

1. Latin, with placenames in various languages, and text in English.

Author

1. Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664.

Title

1. Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium, et Virginia / Johannes Janssonius, excudit.

Imprint

1. Amstelodami : [s.n., 1636?]

Cartographic data

1. Scale [ca. 1:5,200,000] (W 77⁰--W 62⁰/N 47⁰--N 30⁰).

Indexed in:

1. Cumming, 39
2. Stokes. Iconography, II, p. 144-145

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594. Atlas, or, A geographicke description of the regions, countries, and kingdomes of the world.

Research call number

1. Map Div. 97-6087 [LHS 461]
2. Map Div. 00-349