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Source Description
Coordinates printed on map: E 200⁰--E 10⁰/N 60⁰--S 60⁰.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
2514p100q
label
America
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
2514p100q
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
America
description
Coordinates printed on map: E 200⁰--E 10⁰/N 60⁰--S 60⁰.
date
["[1609–1633]"]
year
1609
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
Latin
identifierLocal
06_01_005958
creators
Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Western Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800
America--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
America
Mesoamerica
North America
North and Central America
South America
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Amsterdam
publisher
Hondius
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
42.284495
schema:longitude
-101.123047
extent
1 map : col. ill. ; 36 x 48 cm. on sheet 46 x 57 cm.
notes
Coordinates printed on map: E 200⁰--E 10⁰/N 60⁰--S 60⁰.
On verso: French title "L'Amerique," with page numbers 689 and 692, signature mark Mmmmmmmm, and a large printer's ornament.
From one of the French editions of Mercator's Atlas, published between 1609 and 1633. Cf. P.L. Phillips, A list of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress." Page numbers are not given for the 1st French ed. (Phillips no. 426, v. 1, p. 173-174). The 4th French ed. of 1628 (Phillips no. 438, p. 185-186) and the 6th French ed. of 1633 (Phillips no. 445, v. 1, p. 192-193), both list the map of "America" at p. [690-691].
The first Hondius edition of Mercator's Atlas, augmented by fifty new maps by himself and others, was published in 1606. Cf. Phillips, no. 422, v. 1, p. 170.
Hand colored.
Relief shown pictorially.
Illustrated with views of ships, fish, birds and sea monsters, with an inset view at lower left ("Modus consiciendi & bibendi potum apud Americanos in Brasilia ... "), showing women preparing food and men eating.
Language of the map is Latin; title of the map printed on verso is French.
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no
dcId
2514p100q
type
map
Single page context
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1
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0
type
photo
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ae65342df5fb5453