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Americae nova descriptio [cartographic material] / impensis Anae Seile 1663 ; Rob. Vaughan, sculp.

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Date:

1663.

Reference:

Local class no.: A/1-2000/1663(1682), Box number: 2000708946

Local class no.:

A/1-2000/1663(1682)

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4143419

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Maps, plans and charts

North America

1-2000 - North and South America

Americae nova descriptio
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Date(s):

1663.

Place:

London:

Place of creation:

England

Publisher:

A. Seile,

Extent:

1 map : hand col. ; 33.5 x 41.

Language of material:

English

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This map of the Americas is based on Henry Seile's map of 1652.His widow, Anae, engaged Robert Vaughan to engrave a new plate for her own publication of Heylin's Cosmography. Therefore, this is one of the few maps published exclusively by a woman, with her own imprint. The map is very similar to the earlier map, although the nomenclature of the Delaware River, Carolina and several places on the west coast have been changed. It depicts California as an Island and no Great Lakes. It is decorated with a title cartouche, sea monsters, and sailing ships.
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Seile, Henry, 1595-1660

Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662

Bookseller: Seile, Anne, d. 1678

Engraver: Vaughan, Robert, 17th cent
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General note:

Heylyn, Peter: Cosmography, Fourth Book, Pt. II (London, 1682), 83. This is a later engraving under a slightly different title, of the 1652 (1657) map.
Pictorial relief.
Copperplate engraving.
A re-engraved version of a map previously published for Henri Seile in 1652 under the title "Americae descriptio nova" and subsequently re-published from the same engraving as the 1652 map for Phillippi Chetwood in 1666.

Citation/reference note:

Burden, Entry 379, Tooley (America) p.115, Entry 12 ., McLaughlin, Entry 35

Cartographic math data:

Scale [ca. 1:4,900,000] at equator

Related material:

For other states and or editions see Mikan 4143423 (NMC 6876) State 1 ; G114 H49 1657 fol. (AMICUS No. 9097756) ; Mikan 4164664 (NMC 27726)
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North America Early works to 1800

South America Early works to 1800

Western hemisphere - Maps - Early works to 1800
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Cartographic material

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

Box [G/114/H49/1682 1682] 2000708946

[Consultation 90 Open]

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