Nova et accuratissima totius terrarum orbis tabula / auctore Joanne Blaeu

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  Nova et accurata Brasiliae totius tabula / auctore Joanne Blaeu I.F

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  Kashnor dates as ca. 1660. Van der Krogt identifies this as his 9850:2C, which appeared in Joan Blaeu's 1662-1665 Atlas Maior (2:601). Cartouche: Putti with produce. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Milliarium. Projection: Cylindrical. Watermark: Db. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 881.

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  Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula / auctore Joanne à Loon

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  Kashnor notes, " Shows California as an island with the 'Strait of Anian,' also a small portion of New Zealand. Locates Nouv. Albion and Po. S. Franco. Draco." Kashnor dates as 1666, but Shirley identifies this as the second state of this map and gives appeared in information, dating to 1680. Dedication to Charles II. Pitt was supplied this plate by van Waesberge. Artwork around map is taken from Visscher's 1658 map, see 093:057M. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: no. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Shirley 439; Phillips 470; Wagner 388. Verso Text: MS note: 288.

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  Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula

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  Kashnor notes, "Shows California as an island, and the imaginary Strait of Anian. This is one of the decorative type, richly colored." Shirley notes this map originates with that of Arnold Colom, c.1655, which supplied the surround scenes. This map was modified by de Wit and used by Doncker in his Zee Atlas (does NOT appear in the Doncker atlas owned by the Huntington, RB 70778). Kashnor dates as 1665, Shirley as 1676. Allegorical figures of Fire, Air, Water and Land, Sun and Moon. A striking map. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Shirley 475; BM maps C.31.e.2; Koeman Don. 16.

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  Regiones sub polo Arctico / auctore Guiljelmo Blaeu

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  Kashnor notes, "The map is evidently copied from that by Capt. James." Kashnor dates as ca. 1650, supplies place. Van der Krogt dates Dutch edition to 1642 to 1643 (map 0020:2.1). RLIN record supplies appeared in information. Elaborate cartouche, hunting scene lower right. Relief: no. Projection: Polar. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: Landen onder de Noord-Pool. Dutch printed text.

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  Nova Virginiae tabula

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  Kashnor notes, "Very rare. The cartographer follows the map of Captain John Smith, published in 1612. The next after the above map was again issued by Smith in his Virginia Discovered, 1625." Kashnor dates as 1619, but he seems to have confused this with Jodocus Hondius Jr.'s map of the same name. According to Burden this is State 1, and dates to 1630 (Burden, map 193; Van der Krogt, map 9410:1). For a later edition of the Hondius map, see RB 150037; for Keere's version of the map, see RB 150048; for Blaeu's version of the map, see RB 150054; for Montanus's version of the map, see 150077. Figure of Indian below English coat of arms; Scene of Chief of the Powhatans. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, German. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 823.

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  Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula / auctore Petro Goos

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  Kashnor notes, "Shows California [as an island] and locates New Albion and Port Sr. Franco. Draco, also shows a good map of New Holland and part of the Coast of New Zealand." Shirley dates as 1666, states original atlas reference. Map can be seen in situ in RB 32671. Elaborately engraved map. Two cartouches, one Latin, one Dutch. Two polar submaps. Elaborate decoration, sun and moon, with birds and bats above, four season figures below, four windheads. Polar projection submaps. Prime meridian: Teneriffe. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Shirley 438; BM Maps, Vol. 6, column 852 C.8.d.3; Koeman, Goos 1; Schilder, Map 88; Wagner 393. Verso Text: MS. note: 93/ 63 (on backing).

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