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A new and accurat map of the world : drawne according to ye truest descriptions, latest discoueries & best obseruations yt haue beene made by English or strangers, 1651.

Title: A new and accurat map of the world : drawne according to ye truest descriptions, latest discoueries & best obseruations yt haue beene made by English or strangers, 1651.
Author: Speed, John, 1552?-1629.
Publication: [London] : Are to be sold by Tho. Bassett in Fleet Street and Ric. Chiswell in St. Pauls Church yard, [1676]

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Description

1 map : hand col.; 2 hemispheres each 25 cm. in diam., on sheet 41 x 54 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative Title

New and accvrat map of the world

Subject

World maps > Early works to 1800

Note

Relief shown pictorially.
From John Speed's Prospect of the most famous parts of the world, 1676.
Imprint on map indicates this is 4th state, according to Shirley.
Includes ancillary maps and diagrams of "The heavens and elements," "The eclipsie of the sunnie," "A figure of the spheare," and "The eclipse of the moonie," 2 celestial hemispheres, historical notes, and ill.
Text on verso: The general description of the world, [p.] 1-2. Signature: A. Catchword: the.

Indexed In (note)

Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the World

Call Number

Map Div. 02-321

OCLC

42009068

Author

Speed, John, 1552?-1629.

Title

A new and accurat map of the world : drawne according to ye truest descriptions, latest discoueries & best obseruations yt haue beene made by English or strangers, 1651.

Imprint

[London] : Are to be sold by Tho. Bassett in Fleet Street and Ric. Chiswell in St. Pauls Church yard, [1676]

Cartographic Data

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

Indexed In:

Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the World, 317

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Added Author

Bassett, Thomas, bookseller.

Chiswell, Richard.

Speed, John, 1552?-1629. Prospect of the most famous parts of the world.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 02-321 [Filed with World, 1651]

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