COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
10914
File Name:
10914-1
Call number:
D628 D751w
Map title:
A New and accurate Mappe of the World, drawne according to the best and latest discoveries that have been made.
Place of Publication:
[London]
Publisher:
[Nicholas Bourne]
Publication date:
[1628]
Map size height:
16.3 cm.
Map size width:
24.4 cm.
Item description:
fold-out engraved map; following p. [4]
Geographical description:
Map of the world in two hemispheres showing California as an island and the northwestern part of North America blank. Cartographic elements include lines of latitude and longitude. Decorative elements include portraits of Sir Francis Drake, Ferdinand Magellan, Thomas Cavendish, and Olivier van Noort, armillary sphere, birds, elephant, ship, figures representing water, fire, air, and earth, and illustrations of eclipses of the moon and sun.
Source author:
Drake, Francis, Sir, d. 1637
Source title:
The world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios formerly imprinted ...
Source place:
London : Printed for Nicholas Bourne and are to be sold at his shop at the Royall Exchange, 1628
References:
Church, E. D. Discovery, 413
Geographic Area:
World
Normalized date:
1628
Creator:
Robert Vaughan
A New and accurate Mappe of the World, drawne according to the best and latest discoveries...
