AGSL GeoDiscovery

[Santiago Island]

Description:

Relief shown pictorially.

Bird's eye view.

Index numbers appear on map but key not apparent.

Compass rose.

Depicts Francis Drake's attack on Santiago, the Portuguese slave trading port in the Cape Verde Islands.

Shows topography, vegetation, fortification, solderies, horsemen, ships, sea monster.

Descriptive text above and below map.

Appears in Bry's Grand Voyages, Part IV, German edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1590-1601.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/cy636sh3167

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/cy636sh3167

Language:

ger

Creator:

Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 and Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623?

Publisher:

publisher not identified,

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Date Issued:

1590

Spatial Coverage:

Africa and São Tiago Island (Cabo Verde)

Rights:

Images from the The Renaissance Exploration Collection courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

Rights Holder:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

false