[Double hemisphere map of the world showing track of Schouten’s voyage in 1615-1617]

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Title: [Double hemisphere map of the world showing track of Schouten’s voyage in 1615-1617]
Published / Created: [1618]
Description: Bound in after p. [8].
Busts of various explorers depicted around edges of map.
Four small areas with stains on verso.
Scale not given.
Western hemisphere of North and South America hand colored.
Extent: 1 map
16.1 x 22.9 cm. folded to 16.1 x 9.1 cm.
b&w illustration
Language: French

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Taylor 275
Collection Title: Journal ou relation exacte du voyage de Guill Schouten
Collection / Other Creator: Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon, d. 1625
Collection Created: A Paris : chez M. Gobert, au Palais en la gallerie des prisonniers, et les cartes, chez M. Tauernier, graueur du roy, demeurant au pont Marchand, 1618
Collection Note: Translation of the Journal ofte Beschryvinghe van de wonderlicke reyse, ghedaen door Willem Cornelisz Schouten, Amsterdam, 1618 (generally referred to as Schouten’s Journal, the author being unknown).

Format: cartographic
Genre: Engravings
Hand coloring
Maps
Maps in books
Subject (Topic): Oceania --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800
Voyages around the world --Early works to 1800
World maps --Early works to 1800

Access: Public
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