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Totius Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis novissima representatio...Iohannes Baptista Homann Sac. Caes Maj. Geog. e Reg. Boruss. Societ. Scientiarum membrun Norimbergae Cum Privilegio Sac. Caes. Majestatis. [cartographic material]

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[1735]

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Local class no.: H12/1-2000/[1735], Box number: 2000232458

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H12/1-2000/[1735]

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Maps and cartographic material

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4149066

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Maps, plans and charts

North America

1-2000 - North and South America

Totius Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis novissima representatio...Iohannes Baptista Homann Sac. Caes Maj. Geog. e Reg. Boruss. Societ. Scientiarum membrun Norimbergae Cum Privilegio Sac. Caes. Majestatis.
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[1735]

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Canada

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s.n.,

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1 map : Print, hand col. ; 48.8 x 57.6.

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English

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Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724

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Illus: Title cartouche with natives, flora and fauna and a landscape of an early New England town. Cartouche with historical data showing jutaposed a missionary and a shaman with their respective followers.
Map shows the two continents of North and South America. In the North American portion of the map California appears as a peninsula and western Canada and the United States is either blank or contain the contemporary misconceptions of the area. The map is coloured to show Ecclesiastical boundaries. A key entitled "Bedeutung der Far ben" has been affixed to the map in lower mid-centre. However, the index is incomplete as the lower portion has been cutoff. This map went through at least three, perhaps four editions, (because of the poor quality reproduction in: Map Collectors' Circle No. 8 plate XXXII it is impossible to establish, with any degree of certainty, whether or not it is a different state or a different edition) and probably numerous states within each edition. This particular map represents the third identifiable edition differing from the other two in a number of significant details. A few of these are: no leafy branches in the historical cartouche; Europe, in top right corner does not appear as a peninsula as the other copies (excepting Tooley's); Baffin Island appears as one whereas in the other copies it appears as two; Buttons Bay on
the other copies is labelled Hudson's Bay on this; a different watermark from that identified in the atlas copy. In this latter regard the watermark was found in Heawood no. 3231 and the tentative date of 1735 has been assigned to it. Consequently, this date has been given to this copy of the map. The British Museum dates a map similarly coloured as [1740?] (vol. 7, col. 616) but more information about this copy is needed before a definitive statement can be made about the similarity and/or differences in the two maps. As the B.M. gives no explanation for dating the map as they do, there seems little reason to alter the date of our copy-especially since both are tentative. Phillips in: The Lowery Collection no. 474 lists a map with a title the same as the one described above, including "e" between "Geog' and "Reg" in the imprint (not et as in the other copies) and "membrun" not the correct spelling membro.. Phillips dates his copy as 1763 but again this map must be examined in minute detail and more biographical information on Homann consulted before anything absolute can be established.
For other copies see H6/1-2000/[1735] and A/1-2000/[1715-21]. K. Nebenzahl: Old & Rare Maps: Catalogue No. 3, p. 18, no. 80. Map Collector's Circle, nos. 8, 67; British Museum, Catalogue, vol. 7. Phillips: The Lowery Collection, no. 474. Heawood, H.G. (1930); Watermarks Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries.

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