COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
02929
File Name:
02929-1
Call number:
F656 D678b
Map title:
Nova Belgica sive Nieuw Nederlandt
Place of Publication:
[Amsterdam]
Publisher:
Evert Nieuwenhoff
Publication date:
[1656]
Map size height:
30.6 cm.
Map size width:
18.6 cm.
Item description:
engraved map
Geographical description:
Map of New York with vignette of New Amsterdam (present-day New York City) at bottom with windmill, cranes, dwellings, and church. Built environment also includes two native American settlements with inhabitants dancing. Geographical elements include location of native American tribes and settlements, location of European forts, scale, and compass rose.
Source author:
Donck, Adriaen van der, d. 1655
Source title:
Beschryvinge van Nieuw-Nederlant
Source place:
t'Aemsteldam : By Evert Nieuwenhof, boeck-verkooper, woonende op't Ruslandt in 't Schrijf-boeck, Anno 1655
Cartobibliographic notes:
This map is one in a series of maps produced by Jansson-Visscher showing part of the northeast coast of North America. Variations of the first Jansson-Visscher map, first published ca. 1650, appeared in publications for the next 100 years.
References:
Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America, 317; McCorkle, B.B. New England in Early Printed Maps, 656.3
Geographic Area:
North America
Normalized date:
1656
Nova Belgica sive Nieuw Nederlandt
