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Tabula geographica nova omnium oculis exibens et proponens verissimam descriptionem potentissimi et aurifen Regni Guiana Stanford University Public content

Author(s):
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Publisher:
M. Becker]
Access:
Public
Description:
siti per nautam aliguem qui Gualthero Ralegh navigatione semper adsuit delineata. Relief shown pictorially. Decorative cartouches, compass roses, rhumb lines. Shows topography, waterways, ports. Pictorial vignettes of figures (including woman and headless man with bow and arrows) and fauna. Descriptive text in bottom left: Nota; and throughout. Adapted from an earlier map by Jodocus Hondius. Parallel title and descriptive text in German. From De Bry’s Grands voyages, Part VIII.
Collection:
Grands voyages, part VIII and Renaissance Exploration Map Collection
Place(s):
South America, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, and Amazon River
Subject(s):
Discovery and exploration
Held by:
Stanford