Mappa Aestivarvm insularum, alias Barmvdas dictarum
Description:
Below map, list of proprietors in 12 columns flanked by coats-of-arms., Borders are hand colored., and Not hand colored. With watermark. Sheet measures 46 x 55 cm.
Manuscript number in upper right corner: 116., Relief shown pictorially., and Watermark.
Subject (Geographic):
Caribbean Area--Maps--Early works to 1800, Central America--Maps--Early works to 1800, Mexico--Maps--Early works to 1800, North America--Maps--Early works to 1800, and United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
Allegorical vignettes of the four seasons., Double hemisphere, with smaller polar insets., Imperfect: chipped and mutilated along edges and fold, with some loss of text. Backed with paper., Relief shown pictorially., Shows California as an island., and State 2, in which cherubs were placed in the cusps and a border added; see Rodney Shirley, Mapping of the world, entry 451.
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., and State 2, in which cherubs were placed in the cusps and a border added; see Rodney Shirley, Mapping of the world, entry 451.