Guineae nova descriptio. Full Details

Full Details

Title:

Guineae nova descriptio.

Description:

1 map : hand colored; 35 x 49 cm Scale approximately 1:7,500,000. ; Relief shown pictorially ; Cartouche, inset and scale statement contained within decorative strapwork ; Inset: I.S. Thomæ ; Covers West Africa between Senegal and Cape Lopez. ; Place names in Latin and Portuguese. Text on verso in French ; Detached from Gerard Mercator : Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura ; Amsterdam : Jodocus Hondius; Source: Mercator, Gerard, approximately 1565-1656. Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Amsterdam : Jodocus Hondius, 1606.

Creator:

Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612 and Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594

Publisher:

Jodocus Hondius

Provider:

Northwestern University

Resource Class:

Maps

Temporal Coverage:

1606

Place:

Sao Tome and Principe, West Africa

Rights:

No Copyright - United States The images on this web site, from maps in the collection of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies and housed in the Government & Geographic Information Collection of Northwestern University Libraries are in the public domain in the United States, and as such, not subject to copyright restriction. The Libraries request users cite both the URL and Northwestern University Libraries if they wish to reproduce images from the repository. For access to higher resolution images please contact repository@northwestern.edu

Access Rights:

Public

Language:

Latin, French, and Portuguese

Date Added:

2024-02-28