Detail View: JCB Map Collection: [top] Culiacanae, Americae regionis descriptio. [bottom] Hispaniolae, Cubae, aliarumque insularum circumiacientium, delineatio.
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Accession Number:
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6009
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File Name:
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6009-4
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Call number:
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Z 077 1598 1 / 3-SIZE (copy 2)
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Map title:
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[top] Culiacanae, Americae regionis descriptio. [bottom] Hispaniolae, Cubae, aliarumque insularum circumiacientium, delineatio.
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Place of Publication:
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[Antwerp]
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Publisher:
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[Plantin Press]
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Publication date:
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[1598]
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Map size height:
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35.5 cm.
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Map size width:
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49.6 cm.
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Item description:
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engraved map; following p. 8, hand coloring
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Geographical description:
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[top] Map of part of New Spain or Mexico (present-day Sinaloa) and [bottom] Caribbean islands. Cartographic elements include degrees of latitude and longitude, location of rivers and some settlements. Decorative elements include ships and birds.
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Source author:
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Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
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Source title:
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[Theatrum orbis terrarum. French] Theatre de l'univers, contenant les cartes de tout le monde
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Source place:
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A Anvers : de l'Imprimerie Plantienne, pour Abraham Ortel autheur mesme de ce liure., M. D. XCVIII
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Cartobibliographic notes:
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Ortelius was the creator of the first true atlas (defined as a collection of uniform map sheets and sustaining text bound to form a book for which copper printing plates were specifically engraved). Frequently revised, this atlas was the last one to be printed during Ortelius's lifetime. Ortelius drew the map of Hispaniola himself based on Gerard Mercator's 1569 world map, Diego Guttierez's 1562 America map and Alonso de Santa Cruz' 1560 Isolario.This map is the first detailed map of the Caribbean and one of the first to detail western Mexico.
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References:
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Broecke, M.P.R. van den Ortelius Atlas Maps, No. 14; Cline, H.H. "Ortelius maps of New Spain," Imago Mundi XVI, p. 98-115; Koeman, C. Atlantes neerlandici, Ort. 36; Skelton, R.A. Bib. note, in Facsimile ed. of Ortelius, A. Theatrum orbis terrarum, p. ix, [xi]; http://www.polybiblio.com/marta/6378.html (Sept. 2003)
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Geographic Area:
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Caribbean
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Normalized date:
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1598
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Creator:
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Abraham Ortelius
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