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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
10796
File Name:
10796-7
Call number:
Z Z1 /1 /3-SIZE
Map title:
[South polar projection]
Place of Publication:
[Amsterdam]
Publisher:
[Adriaan Braakman]
Publication date:
[ca. 1706]
Map size height:
43.3 cm.
Map size width:
48.2 cm.
Item description:
engraving, hand coloring
Geographical description:
Map of south polar projection showing South America from the Tropic of Capricorn. Cartographic elements include lines of latitude and longitude. Includes a scene at upper left of native American warfare and cooking, at lower left a native American woman giving her children birds to eat while men hunt in canoes in background, and at lower right, a native American man and woman standing next to a penguin while another hunts penguin in background.
Cartobibliographic notes:
This map is no. [117] in an atlas with binder's title, Atlas 2, and may have been published by Adriaan Braakman at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Geographic Area:
Polar
Historical notes:
Scenes in the corners of the map are taken from Dutch explorers accounts. See Barent Jansz. Potgieter, VVijdtloopigh verhael, Amsterdam. 1600.
Normalized date:
1706

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