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Edward Wright's map of the then known world, for Hakluyt's Principal navigations [ca. 1600]

Title: Edward Wright's map of the then known world, for Hakluyt's Principal navigations [ca. 1600] [cartographic material].
Author: Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615.
Publication: Providence, R.I. : John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, 1978.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.	Cartographic	Use in library	Map Div. 80-3029	Schwarzman Building M2 - Map Division Desk Room 117

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Description

1 map on 2 sheets; sheets 50 x 38 cm. and 50 x 37 cm.

Uniform Title

Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation.

Alternative Title

Wright-Molyneux map
Thou hast here, gentle reader, a true hydrographical description of so much of the world as hath beene hetherto discouered

Subjects

Genre/Form

Early maps.

Note

"The most recent information on the map is found in The Hakluyt handbook, edited by David Beers Quinn, London, the Hakluyt Society (second series, volume 145), 1974: Helen Wallis, 'Edward Wright and the 1599 world maps,' p. 69-73 ..."
Facsimile of 2nd state of map, distinguished by addition of cartouche near southern South America, with text about discoveries of Sir Francis Drake.
"Reproduced from the original in the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University."
Accompanied by sheet of text: Edward Wright's map of the then known world, for Hakluyt's Principal navigations [ca. 1600] : a note to accompany the facsimile published by the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1978. ([2] p. : 28 x 22 cm.)

Bibliography (note)

Call Number

Map Div. 80-3029

LCCN

81690544

OCLC

8386499

Author

Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615.

Title

Edward Wright's map of the then known world, for Hakluyt's Principal navigations [ca. 1600] [cartographic material].

Imprint

Providence, R.I. : John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, 1978.

Cartographic Data

Scale [ca. 1:65,000,000]. At Equator ; Mercator proj. (W 180°--E 180°/N 72°--S 70°).

Bibliography

Bibliography in accompanying text.

Local Note

NYPL Map Div. copy: 2 sheets and accompanying text together in 1 mylar encapsulation.

Added Author

Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.

Molyneux, Emery.

John Carter Brown Library.

Added Title

Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 80-3029 [Filed as 1 sheet with World, 1599]