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Includes table of local features and land holdings by Provence, Auvergne, France, Italy, Aragon, Germany, and Castile. Submap: Valletta. 80 25 MS note: A.L. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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Possibly a later copy of the map of Denmark which appeared in the first section of Jensson's Novus Atlas (Huntington Accession no. 131945) from 1647. Varies only in the cartouche in the lower right corner, which ascribes the map to De Wit and is in Dutch, and in not being colored MS note: 1550? Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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Kashnor notes, "Shows California as an island, with the coast continued to the supposed Strait of Anian in the 59th latitude." Kashnor dates as ca. 1688, and from Amsterdam. Shirley indicates first date is 1670, a second plate was created in 1680 with Nova Guinea and Quiri Regio in the left hemisphere. See Shirley, map 451. Decorative map surround. Art work: Scenes of the four seasons with corresponding astrological symbols in all four corners. Submaps: North and South Polar views. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: no. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Watermark: Px. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 54/93 148962.
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