America sive novvs orbis respectv Evropaeorvm inferior globi terrestris pars / [Theod. de Bry]
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- Created Date
- 1596
- Description
Includes latitude and longitude. Relief shown pictorially. Four explorers support the circle enclosing the hemisphere in a maritime landscape. The explorers with dates of their discoveries are from top left: Christopher Columbus (1492) and Amerigo Vespucci (1497); from bottom left: Ferdinand Magellan (1519), and Francisco Pizarro (1526). Includes illustrations of ships and a monstrous fish. First map of America to show the White-le Moyne geography of Virginia and Florida. Appears in Girolamo Benzoni's History of the new world, v. 3., which is part 6 of de Bry's Grands voyages. Latin ed. published 1596, 1617, and 1624. In Latin.
Theodor De Bry’s map of the Americas in 1596 depicts the conception of the Western Hemisphere at the end of the 16th century. The circular world map is surrounded by four famous explorers of the area: Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Ferdinand Magellan, and Francisco Pizarro. The map is heavily annotated to include then-recent discoveries, including Columbus’s discovery of America, and the first appearance of White and Le Moyne's geography of Virginia and Florida on a map of America. The map is heavily decorated with other illustrations of ships and even a sea monster. Also notable is the inclusion of latitude and longitude on the map. This map was included in the sixth volume of De Bry’s thirty volume collection Les Grands Voyages which contained several noteworthy maps as well as new and unique engravings of the New World. LPM
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- Creator
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Publisher
- Formis Theod. de Bry
- Subjects
- America--Maps--Early works to 1800
North America--Maps--Early works to 1800
Central America--Maps--Early works to 1800
South America--Maps--Early works to 1800
America--Discovery and exploration--Maps--Early works to 1800
Western Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800
Early maps - Type
- image
- Language
- Latin
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598. America sive novvs orbis respectv Evropaeorvm inferior globi terrestris pars / [Theod. de Bry]. 1596. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/1609. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, (1596) America sive novvs orbis respectv Evropaeorvm inferior globi terrestris pars / [Theod. de Bry]. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/1609
- MLA citation style
- Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/1609>.