Quarte partie du monde

Quarte partie du monde

Item Information

Title:
Quarte partie du monde
Title (alt.):
Qvarte partie du monde
Title in Wheat: Nouveau monde descouvert et illustre de nostre temps
Creator:
Thevet, André, 1502-1590
Contributor:
L'Huillier, Pierre
Name on Item:
And. Thevet, cosmographe du roy
Date:
[1575]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
Phillips Academy
Collection (local):
Sidney R. Knafel Map Collection at Phillips Academy, Andover MA
Subjects:
America--Maps--Early works to 1800
Western Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800
Pacific Ocean--Maps--Early works to 1800
Extent:
1 map ; 33 x 43 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/hq37vv50x
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Publisher:
[Paris] : [P. l'Huilier]
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:52,000,000]
Language:
French
Notes:
Relief shown pictorially.
Prime meridian: Ferro.
Covers also parts of eastern Asia, New Guinea and Antarctica.
Includes text and ill. of ships, sea monsters, trees, fires and human figures.
From Thevet's Cosmographie universelle, vol. 2 following p. 936.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Wheat, C.I. Mapping the transmississippi West, 18
Lowery, 61
Suarez, T. Shedding the veil, 32
Identifier:
1320