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Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.
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Title:Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.
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Related Title:Le novveav monde
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Author/Creator:Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598, cartographer.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. Theatrum orbis terrarum.
Coppens van Diest, Gillis, printer.
Dr. Stephen Drance Map Collection.
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Published/Created:[Antwerpen] : [Aegidius C. Diesth], [1572].
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Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS mapsWhere is this?
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Call Number: G3290 1572 .O7
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS mapsWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:America--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Western Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800.
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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.
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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.
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Local note:UBC has a copy in the Dr. Stephen Drance Map Collection.
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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."