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A new and accurat map of the world drawn according to ye truest descriptions latest discoveries & best observations yt have beene made by English or strangers [cartographic material]

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Date:

1659].

Reference:

R11981-475-9-E, Volume number: 35

Item no. (creator):

Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection #35

Local class no.:

H3/10000/[1659]

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4153650

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Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection

World maps

A new and accurat map of the world drawn according to ye truest descriptions latest discoveries & best observations yt have beene made by English or strangers
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Date(s):

1659].

Place:

[London :

Place of creation:

England

Publisher:

s.n.,

Extent:

1 map : ill., hand col. ; 2 hemispheres each 25 cm in diam., on sheet 41 x 54 cm.

Language of material:

English

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The double hemispheres are surrounded by a multitude of figures and spheres: in the four corners are an astronomical table, an armillary sphere, and eclipses of the sun and moon. Celestial charts for the northern and southern skies sit above and below the hemispheres; the Four Elements, Water, Earth, Fire and Air, are pictured allegorically, and there are portraits of four of the great discoverers: Sir Francis Drake, Mr. Thomas Candish, Ferdinandus Magellan and Oliverus Vander Noort.
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Cartographer: Speed, John, 1552?-1629

Publisher: Walton, Robert, 1618-1688
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General note:

Pictorial relief.
Copperplate engraving.
Both hemispeheres contain historical information with respect to early exploration.
This version of the map contains no text on the verso.
This is a copy of a John speed map of 1626[1627] by Robert Walton. Apparently ours is the 3rd state described in shirley 397, i.e. the version appearing in the 3rd ed. (1659) of Petau work.

Custodial history:

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

Citation/reference note:

Shirley, Entry 397, Richard B. Arkway, Inc. Cohen & Taliferro L.L.C. Catalogue 65 (www.arkway.com/pdfs/Cat65.pdf)

Cartographic math data:

Scale indeterminate (W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--S 90°)

Availability of other formats note:

The microfiche version is NMC7189

Exhibitions note:

This map was part of an exhibition held at The Royal Ontario Museum, March 1954 entitled "The Discovery & Mapping of the Great Lakes 'Sweet Water' 1522-1703 showcasing MacDonald's Collection.

Date of issue:

Date of issue based on information appearing in Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, rev. ed., vol. Q-Z.

Related material:

For other states and or editions see: G1015 .S73 1627 .S5 1966 - fol. (AMICUS No. 26306012) ; G120 S7 1662 xfol. (AMICUS No. 13383954)

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35 : Former container label was "10000 WORLD [1659]"

Subject heading:

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World - Maps - Early works to 1800

Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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80101/245 CA
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Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]
Original can be viewed in the presence of an early cartographic archivist. Microfiche version is open

Microfiche NMC7189

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R11981] 35

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada.
Copyright: Expired.

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