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Source Description
Shows boundaries, roads, forests, plantations and settlements.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
8336h266q
label
Insula Iamaica
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
8336h266q
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Insula Iamaica
description
Shows boundaries, roads, forests, plantations and settlements.
date
["[1737]"]
year
1737
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
Latin
identifierLocal
06_01_007513
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Jamaica--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
Jamaica
North and Central America
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
Jamaica
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Nuremberg
publisher
Homann Erben
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
18.25
schema:longitude
-77.5
extent
1 map ; 15 x 27 cm.
notes
Shows boundaries, roads, forests, plantations and settlements.
Relief shown pictorially.
Scale given in "Milliaria Anglica statuta 70 pro gradu."
Appears on sheet Die Englische Colonie-Laender ... [Nürnberg] : Homaennische Erben, [ca. 1740], with maps of the Bermuda Islands, Antigua, Saint Kitts, and Barbados.
Title in Latin, explanations in German, and map locations in English.
hasTranscription
no
dcId
8336h266q
type
map
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
97610375c445cd1e