"Are to be sold by Tho: Bassett in Fleet Street and Ric: Chiswell in St. Pauls Church yard", Double hemisphere, with smaller celestial hemispheres and astronomical diagram., From: A prospect of the most famous parts of the world... London...1676., Mounted on linen, text on verso: "The generall description of the world" is still visible. Cross collection no. 17., Shows California as an island., and This map is state 4, the last state published.
Publisher:
Sold by Tho. Bassett and Ric. Chiswell,
Subject (Name):
Bassett, Thomas, bookseller., Chiswell, Richard., and Speed, John, 1552?-1629. Prospect of the most famous parts of the world.
From his atlas Prospect of the World, pp. 9-10, sig. e, catch. in-., Includes text, inset of Greenland, and views of towns and ill. of figures in margins., Text of "The description of America" on verso., and Tooley identifies this as a 1676 issue, noting NY and Maryland mentioned for the first time in text about Virginia (section 14) on verso; and Hochelaga, Quebec, and Tadasac added to description of Canada.
Publisher:
are to be sold by Thomas Bassett in Fleet Street and by Richard Chiswell in St. Pauls Churchyard,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Bassett, Thomas, bookseller., Chiswell, Richard., Goos, Abraham, engraver., and Speed, John, 1552?-1629. Prospect of the most famous parts of the world.