A new and accurat map of the world : drawne according to ye truest descriptions latest discoveries & best observations yt have beene made by English or strangers, 1651. Relief shown pictorially. Text on verso titled The generall description of the world; p. 1-2; printer's signature A. Includes vignettes of the 4 elements as allegorical figures, portraits of 4 circumnavigators, charts of the northern and southern celestial hemispheres, a geocentric diagram of The heavens and elements, and illustrations of A figure of the sphere, The eclipse of the sunne, and The eclipse of the moon. Shows Calif
A new and accurat map of the world : drawne according to ye truest descriptions latest discoveries & best observations yt have beene made by English or strangers, 1651. Relief shown pictorially. Text on verso titled The generall description of the world; p. 1-2; printer's signature A. Includes vignettes of the 4 elements as allegorical figures, portraits of 4 circumnavigators, charts of the northern and southern celestial hemispheres, a geocentric diagram of The heavens and elements, and illustrations of A figure of the sphere, The eclipse of the sunne, and The eclipse of the moon. Shows California as an island. In the author's A prospect of the most famous parts of the world (London, 1662). Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human New and accvrat map of the world. New and accvrat map of the world, World
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