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Nova et accurate divisa in regna et regiones praecipuas Europae descriptio [cartographic material]
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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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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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![Yucatan conventus juridici Hispaniae novae pars occidentalis et Guatimala conventus juridiciis [cartographic material] / Copied from John Ogilby's "Description of the New World" London MDCLXX by James Laurie, Belize 18th Jany. 1844](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4MO2QP5%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
Manuscripts
Manuscript map showing Yucatán Peninsula, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. The island of Cuba is also shown. Copied from a map printed in John Ogilby's "Description of the New World, "London 1670. Descriptive text in left and right margins of sheet. James Laurie was a Scottish geographer and chief editor of "A system of universal geography," Edinburgh, 1842. He should not be confused with James Laurie (1811-1875), the American engineer and one of the founders of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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