File:America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings. NYPL54662.tiff

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Description America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings.
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A curious feature of Speed's map is the delineation of of California as an island, even though sixteenth-century cartographers had been drawing it correctly as a peninsula (see entries 10, 13, 14, 15, 16). Note 2.) A curious feature of Speed's map is the delineation of of California as an island, even though sixteenth-century cartographers had been drawing it correctly as a peninsula (see entries 10, 13, 14, 15, 16). Note 3.) A curious feature of Speed's map is the delineation of of California as an island, even though sixteenth-century cartographers had been drawing it correctly as a peninsula (see entries 10, 13, 14, 15, 16). Note 4.) A curious feature of Speed's map is the delineation of of California as an island, even though sixteenth-century cartographers had been drawing it correctly as a peninsula (see entries 10, 13, 14, 15, 16). Note 5.) A curious feature of Speed's map is the delineation of of California as an island, even though sixteenth-century cartographers had been drawing it correctly as a peninsula (see entries 10, 13, 14, 15, 16). Note 6.) A curious feature of Speed's map is the delineation of of California as an island, even though sixteenth-century cartographers had been drawing it correctly as a peninsula (see entries 10, 13, 14, 15, 16). Note 7.) A curious feature of Speed's map is the delineation of of California as an island, even though sixteenth-century cartographers had been drawing it correctly as a peninsula (see entries 10, 13, 14, 15, 16). Note 8.) A curious feature of Speed's map is the delineation of of California as an island, even though sixteenth-century cartographers had been drawing it correctly as a peninsula (see entries 10, 13, 14, 15, 16). Note 9.) From John Speed, A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World, London, 1627. Note 10.) Includes text, inset of Greenland, and ill. of native figures and town views in margins. Note 11.) National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard. Note 12.) State 2 according to Burden. Differs from similar map; has additional place names such as Boston and Long Ile. Note 13.) Text on verso. Note 14.) [Deák 039 also depicts California as an island]
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Deák 023
Item/Page/Plate
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Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America, 217.
Physical description
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1 print (1st state) ; 39.4 x 51.1 cm.
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Map Div. 02-508 [Filed with America, 1626]
Date circa 1662
date QS:P,+1662-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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institution QS:P195,Q219555
Author Goos, Abraham -- EngraverSpeed, John, 1552?-1629 -- Cartographer
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From The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division. Released on a CC0 license.[1]
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54662
Location
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
NYPL digital item published
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2-26-2005; updated 3-25-2011


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