America sive novvs orbis respectv Evropaeorvm inferior globi terrestris pars

Description:

Includes latitude and longitude.; Relief shown pictorially.; Four explorers support the circle enclosing the hemisphere in a maritime landscape. The explorers with dates of their discoveries are from top left: Christopher Columbus (1492) and Amerigo Vespucci (1497); from bottom left: Ferdinand Magellan (1519), and Francisco Pizarro (1526).; Includes illustrations of ships and a monstrous fish.; First map of America to show the White-le Moyne geography of Virginia and Florida.; Appears in Girolamo Benzoni's History of the new world, v. 3., which is part 6 of de Bry's Grands voyages.; Latin ed. published 1596, 1617, and 1624. 14 centimeters diameter, on sheet 33 x 41 centimeters Scale approximately 1:30,000,000 General Map Collection

Creator:

Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598

Publisher:

Formis Theod. de Bry (Francofurti ad Moenum)

Provider:

University of Minnesota

Collection:

05d-01 and p16022coll230

Resource Class:

Maps

Temporal Coverage:

1596

Date Issued:

1596?

Spatial Coverage:

North America

Rights:

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Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG

More details at:

https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll230:817