Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 1 map : hand colored; 38 x 50 cm, sheet 46 x 57

Alternative title

1. Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). NA001.3.02

Subject

1. Early Maps
2. Western Hemisphere > Maps > Early works to 1800
3. Arctic regions > Maps > Early works to 1800
4. Antarctica > Maps > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

1. Early Maps.

Call number

1. Map Div. 15-5004 [Filed with North and South America [1640]]

Note

1. Relief shown pictorially.
2. Shows North and South America.
3. Includes illustrations of ships, sea monsters, and insets showing "Polus Arcticus" region and "Terra Australis incognita."
4. Latin text on verso.
5. Matches Tooley's descrition of edition published in 1641.

Indexed in (note)

1. Tooley, R.V. The Mapping of America
2. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division

Author

1. Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664, cartographer.

Title

1. America noviter delineata / excudit Ioannes Ianssonius.

Publisher

1. Amsterdam : Ioannes Ianssonius, [1641]

Cartographic data

1. Scale approximately 1:43,000,000 at the equator (W 169°--W 3°/S 55°--N 71°).

Type of content

1. cartographic image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Indexed in:

1. Tooley, R.V. The Mapping of America page 299
2. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division , v.1, page 212, column 3, no. 2 .

Local note

1. Date is listed in the Dictionary catalog of the Map Division as [1640].

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Place of publication

1. Netherlands Amsterdam.

Research call number

1. Map Div. 15-5004 [Filed with North and South America [1640]]