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A New and most Exact map of AMERICA Described by N I Vischer and don into English Enlarged and corrected acording to I Bleau and Others with the Habits of ye people & ye manner of ye Cheife sitties ye like never before

Description:

1668, “Printed Colloured and are to be sould by John Overton at ye White horse in Little Brittaine neare the Hospitall, 1668”

[1671], with the date erased and the address changed to: Printed...by Iohn Overton at ye White hourse neere the Fountaine Tavern Without Newgate. Issued in Lewes Roberts, The Merchants Map of Commerce and Robert Fage, Cosmography, both 1671.

Tooley 24 (Plate 39); Leighly 50 and 61; Wagner 406; Burden 401 (Plate 401).

California of Briggs type, with flat northern coast. Side borders of costume figures and top and bottom borders of views of cities and portraits of navigators. Inset: Partial Polar projection, which includes Straits of Anian but shows California place names on North America. Originally drawn and issued by Petrus Kerre] Kaerius in 1614.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/fy697rn5092

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/fy697rn5092, 40, and 40-02

Creator:

Overton, John, 1640-1708?

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Subject:

America--Maps and California as an island--Maps

Theme:

Imagery

Rights:

Image from the Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island 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