Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 1 map : hand col.; 2 hemispheres 27 cm. in diam., on sheet 52 x 61 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Alternative title

1. Nova orbis tabula

Subject

1. Eastern Hemisphere > Maps > Early works to 1800
2. Western Hemisphere > Maps > Early works to 1800
3. World maps > Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Map Div. 02-312

Note

1. Relief shown pictorially.
2. Includes ancillary maps of north and south polar regions and ill. in 4 corners with images of the seasons, the elements and signs of the Zodiac.
3. Scenes in 4 corners with images of the seasons, the elements and signs of the Zodiac.
4. In upper right margin: 1.

Indexed in (note)

1. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world

Author

1. Wit, Frederik de, 1629 or 1630-1706.

Title

1. Nova orbis tabvla / in lvcem edita, a. F. de Wit.

Imprint

1. [Amstelodami : de Wit, ca. 1670]

Cartographic data

1. Scale [ca. 1:100,000,000] (W 180⁰--E 180⁰/N 90⁰--S 90⁰).

Indexed in:

1. Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 451

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Research call number

1. Map Div. 02-312