Nova orbis tabvla in lvcem edita / a. F. de Wit.

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Title: Nova orbis tabvla in lvcem edita / a. F. de Wit.
Alternative Title: Nova orbis tabula in lucem edita
Creator: Wit, Frederik de
Copyright Date: [approximately 1670]
Description: Allegorical vignettes of the four seasons.
Double hemisphere, with smaller polar insets.
Label on verso with manuscript number "101/61." Manuscript notes on verso: A.K. 481; no. 3; de Wit, 1660 [crossed out] 1677. Cross collection no. 26.
Relief shown pictorially.
Shows California as an island.
State 2, in which cherubs were placed in the cusps and a border added; see Rodney Shirley, Mapping of the world, entry 451.
Extent: 1 map : hand colored ; 2 hemispheres, each 27 cm in diamater, on sheet 47 x 55 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Scale: Scale approximately 1:50,000,000
Coordinates: (W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--S 90°)., 090.000000, -090.000000, 180.000000, -180.000000, 50000000, and a
Language: Latin

Access: Public
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Citation: Shirley, R. Mapping of the world, 1472-1700, 451