Collection search - Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova [cartographic material]

Relief shown pictorially.
Copper plate engraving.
Includes compass rose.
Includes view of a Mohawk village (Modus muniendi apud Mahikanewses),
Map reflects the early Dutch exploration in the new world and is largely based on a manuscript map by Adriaen Block, a Dutch fur trader who explored the area between Cape Cod and Manhatten. Map is oriented so the noth is to the right.
Illustrated with depictions of animals (deer, foxes, bears,egerts, rabbits, cranes, beavers, polecats, otters and turkeys) and ships at sea. Also includes decorative title cartouche with native Americans, as well as scale cartouche.
On verso: page #6 titled Belgica Nova et Nova Anglia with signature 6 America E
Originally published in Blaeu's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

Part of the Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection purchased by the Public Archives of Canada in 1981.

Burden, Entry 241., Koeman, vol. 1, entry B1 22 (6 America E [214])

Scale [ca. 1: 3 000 000]

Scale :"Milliaria Germanica communia."

The microfiche version is NMC 6585

Date of issue based on the signature information in Phillip B. Burden's "The Mapping of North America", Entry 241, p. 304. Appears to be from the 1640 Latin edition.