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• Title:Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.
  
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• Related Title:Le novveav monde
  
• Author/Creator:Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598, cartographer.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. Theatrum orbis terrarum.
  Coppens van Diest, Gillis, printer.
  Dr. Stephen Drance Map Collection.
  
• Published/Created:[Antwerpen] : [Aegidius C. Diesth], [1572].
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS mapsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3290 1572 .O7
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:America--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  Western Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  
• Description:Scale approximately 1:44,000,000 ; (W 190°--W 360°/N 70°--S 70°).
  1 map : colored ; 35 x 48 cm on sheet 43 x 57 cm, folded to 43 x 29 cm.
  
• Summary:Copperplate engraving, brightly hand coloured, depicting the lower half of North America and South America, with a partial view of Australia, Terra del Fuego. Shows three ships sailing westward in the Pacific, one ship sailing eastward in the Pacific, with a serpent off Patagonia.
  
• Local note:UBC has a copy in the Dr. Stephen Drance Map Collection.
  
• Notes:Relief shown pictorially.
  "Cum priuilegio."
  Prime meridian: Cape verde.
  From the 1572 edition of Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum published by Coppens van Diest.
  Accompanied by descriptive text on back of map entitled: "Le Novveav monde."