AGSL GeoDiscovery

Tabula geographica nova omnium oculis exibens et proponens verissimam descriptionem potentissimi et aurifen Regni Guiana

Alternative Title:

Neuwe Landtaffel, in welcher eigentlich, und warhafftiglich furgestelt wird, das gewaltige und goldtreiche Kunigreich Guiana so daligt under der aequinoctial Linien zwischer Brasilien und Peru

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.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/qw352zt9270

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/qw352zt9270

Language:

lat

Creator:

Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612, Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, Becker, Matthias, active 1573-1606, and Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618

Publisher:

M. Becker]

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Subject:

Discovery and exploration

Date Issued:

1599

Spatial Coverage:

South America, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, and Amazon River

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