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Creator:
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Title(s):
America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings / discribed and inlarged by I.S., ano. 1626 ; Abraham Goos Amstelodaminsis sculpsit.
Published/Created:
[London] : Are to be sold in Popshead Alley against the Exchange by G. Humble, [1662?]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 36 x 44 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio C 2010 2i
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:45,000,000].
Notes:
Relief shown pictorially.
State 2 according to Burden. Differs from similar map; has additional place names such as Boston and Long Ile.
From John Speed's A prospect of the most famous parts of the world.
Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America, 217
Includes text, inset of Greenland, and ill. of native figures and town views in margins.
Text on verso.
BAC: British Art Center copy on sheet 44 x 55 cm. Hand-colored.
Subject Terms:
America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
America.
Form/Genre:
Early works.
Maps.
Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1662.
Contributors:
Goos, Abraham, engraver.
Humble, George, -1640, publisher.
Speed, John, 1552?-1629. Prospect of the most famous parts of the world.
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