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Provincia Connachtiae : The Province of Connaught

Description: Map is the same (with variations in the cartouche and scale location) as the map of Connacht in Jan Jansson's "Novus Atlas" of 1647-1649. Western side of Ireland from Shannon to Donegal. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: Ms note: S5.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [ca. 1650]
Call number: 280380
Dimensions: 39 x 49 cm
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Duche de Bretaigne / Designé par le Sieur Hardy Mareschal des logis du Roy ; Avec Privilege de la Maieste

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Something has been erased on the original plate below Amstelodami, etc. Is an uncolored version of the map of Brittany which appears in Jansson's Novus Atlas (Huntington Accession no. 131945) from 1647. Erasure is not visible in atlas version of the map. Ms note: 15. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Watermark: PV. Printing Process: Copper engraving.

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Regni Daniae Accuratissima delineatio

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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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Asiae : nova delineatio / auctore N. Visscher

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Kashnor notes, "Dedicated, with emblazoned coat of arms, to D. Hendricus Spiegel, urbis Amstelaedamonia Consuli et senatori. Includes Manila and the Philippines." Cartouche: Sea nymphs and female forms. Coat of arms with dedication (upper left). Map appears in the 1647-1662 German edition of Novus Atlas absolutissimus (RB 139329 v. 6). Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Azimuthal. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 738.

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Virginia Marylandia et Carolina in America Septentrionali Britannorum industria excultae repraesentatae / a Joh. Bapt. Homann S.C.M. Geog. Norimbergae Cum Privilegio Sac. Caes. Majest

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Kashnor notes: "A curious map in which is included East and West Jersey." Kashnor dates as ca. 1750. Cumming notes that the map was first published in 1714 in Homann's Novus atlas. Cartouche: Traders and Indians. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: German miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Watermark: Crowned device over AV. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Cummins 156. Verso Text: MS note: 444.

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Virginiae partis australis ; et Floridae partis orientalis ; interjacentiumque regionum nova descriptio

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Kashnor dates ca. 1630. Cumming dates 1638. A comparison with van der Krogt and Burden shows that the author is Jansson, not Blaeu, and was published in an edition of his Novus atlas between 1630 and 1675. Cartouche: Indian figures. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Milliaria? Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Burden 254; Cumming 42; Van der Krogt, map 9400:1B Verso Text: MS note: 595.

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South America agreeable to the most approv'd Maps and Charts, by T. Kitchin, Geogr. Hydrographer to his Majesty

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See 093:630 for map from same plate, with variations. Cartouche: Native with tent.. Prime meridian: London, Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS note: 620.

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Provincia Connachtiae : The Province of Connaught

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