COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
03620
File Name:
03620-2
Call number:
E679 L217a
Map title:
Kaert von Groen-Land.
Place of Publication:
[Nuremberg]
Publisher:
[Christof Riegels]
Publication date:
[1679]
Map size height:
17.6 cm.
Map size width:
27.5 cm.
Item description:
fold-out engraved map; before p. 1
Geographical description:
Map of Northeastern North America including the area around Hudson Bay. Also includes western Norway, Scotland, and Iceland. Below the map are four scenes of the Arctic titled: Ysländsche Wilden (indigenous people of Iceland in a landscape), Groenländisch Schiff (Greenlander in a kayak with the torso of an animal [seal or dog?] at its bow), Zee Ein Hoorn (a narwhal), and Gronländsche Wilden (Greenlanders or Eskimos hunting deer with bows and arrows). Cartographic elements include degrees of longitude and latitude, the prime meridian, names of geographic locations, and native Americans or Inuit hunting.
Source author:
La Peyrère, Isaac de, 1594-1676
Source title:
[Relation du Groenland. German] Ausfürliche Beschreibung des theils bewohnt - theils unbewohnt - so gennanntedn Grönlands ...
Source place:
Nürnberg : in verlegung Christof Riegels, 1679
References:
Burden, P. D. Mapping of North America II, 509
Geographic Area:
North America
Historical notes:
La Peyrère is known as a formulator of Pre-Adamite theory [the belief that humans existed before Adam]. He served as secretary to the Prince of Condé. He also argued that Messiah would join with the Prince of Condé to liberate the Holy Land, rebuild the Temple and set up a world government of the Messiah with the king of France (the Prince of Condé) as regent.
Normalized date:
1679
Kaert von Groen-Land.
