- Collection:
- Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library Rare Map Collection
- Title:
- Insulae Americanae
- Creator:
- Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702
- Publisher:
- [Amsterdam? : Visscher?, 1680?]
- Date of Original:
- 1680
- Subject:
- Caribbean Area--Maps--Early works to 1800
Central America--Maps--Early works to 1800
West Indies--Maps--Early works to 1800 - Location:
- Caribbean, 20.38583, -72.33398
Central America, 25.32417, -99.66797
West Indies, 19.38333, -71.21667 - Medium:
- maps (documents)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Scales in German, Spanish, and French miles.
From: Atlas Minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delineatio ex conatibus Nic. Visscher.
Phillips, Lowery Collection, no. 179.
De Renne, III - 1194.
Photograph negative no.: 5076.
"For the French names on the Florida coast Visscher appears to have based his map on Mercator's Virginiae item et Floridae ... nova descriptio 1606. The plate appears to be the same used with the same title by Jansson, 1642; Guilielmus Blaeu, 1644; Johannis Blaeu, 1667; Valck and Schenk, 1710 (?") cf. Philip Lee Phillips. The Lowery collection.
Relief shown pictorially.
Hand colored.
Title and scale enclosed in illustrative cartouches.
Includes illustrations of sailing ships on the seas.
Scale [ca. 1:2,150,000] (E 282[ca.⁰1 .a--E 24 50]a⁰e0,/N 39eqce⁰iim--N 1nee⁰di c). - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_hmap_hmap1680v5
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_hmap_hmap1680v5#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_hmap_hmap1680v5/presentation/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [Title], [map number], Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.
- Extent:
- 1 map : hand col. ; 45 x 55 cm., on sheet 49 x 60 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
