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• Title:Regiones sub Polo Arctico / auctore Guiljelmo Blaeu.
  
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• Variant Title:Regiones svb Polo Arctico
  
• Author/Creator:Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Andrew McCormick Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Amstelodami : Apud Guiljelmum et Iohannem Blaeu, [1635].
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS framedWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3270 1635 .B5
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Andrew McCormick Collection
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  Northwest Passage--Discovery and Exploration--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  Arctic regions--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  North Pole--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  
• Description:Scale approximately 1:26,611,200 ; (N 90° - N 60°).
  1 map : colored ; 39 x 51 cm.
  
• Summary:Engraved print of Arctic regions, hand-coloured. Contains three large cartuoches with elaborately illustrated human and animal figures and a dedication to Guilielmo Backer de Corneliis by Joh. Blaeu. Includes coastal names, ships, compass roses, rhumb lines; results of searches for the North West Passage.
  
• Local note:UBC has a copy in the Andrew McCormick Collection, listed as mccormick_60, related to mccormick_58.
  
• Notes:Coastal names, ships, compass roses, rhumb lines; results of searches for the North West Passage.
  From: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, and Joan Blaeu. Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus: in quo tabulæ et descriptiones omnium regionum. Amsterdami: Apud Guiljelmum et Iohannem Blaeu, 1635.