America sive novvs orbis respectv Evropaeorvm inferior globi terrestris pars
America sive novvs orbis respectv Evropaeorvm inferior globi terrestris pars
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Title:
America sive novvs orbis respectv Evropaeorvm inferior globi terrestris pars
Title (alt.):
America sive novus orbis respectu Europaeorum inferior globi terrestris pars
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Four explorers support the circle enclosing the hemisphere in a maritime landscape. The explorers with dates of their discoveries are from top left: Christopher Columbus (1492) and Amerigo Vespucci (1497); from bottom left: Ferdinand Magellan (1519), and Francisco Pizarro (1526). First map of America to show the White-le Moyne geography of Virginia and Florida.
Relief shown pictorially.
Prime meridian: Ferro.
Four explorers support the circle enclosing the hemisphere in a maritime landscape. The explorers with dates of their discoveries are from top left: Christopher Columbus (1492) and Amerigo Vespucci (1497); from bottom left: Ferdinand Magellan (1519), and Francisco Pizarro (1526).
Includes illustrations of ships and a monstrous fish.
First map of America to show the White-le Moyne geography of Virginia and Florida.
From part 6 of de Bry's Grands voyages.