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Accession Number 02128
File Name
Call number D576 G464d
Map title A general map, made onelye for the particuler declaration of this discovery
Place of Publication [London]
Publisher [Henry Middleton]
Publication date [1576]
Map size height 18 cm.
Map size width 29 cm.
Item description fold-out woodcut map; following Table of Contents
Geographical description Map (heart-shaped or cordiform) of the world including part of the coast of North and South America. Cartographic elements include some lines of latitude and longitude (based on a Ferro meridian). Canada is shown as an island, the Northwest Passage, Anian, Hochelaga, and Labrador are included.
Source author Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 1539?-1583
Source title A discourse of a disccouerie for a new passage to Cataia
Source place Imprinted at London : by Henry Middleton for Richarde Ihones, Anno. Domini Aprilis. 12
References Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the World, 136, plate 115; (June 2004)
Geographic Area World
Historical notes Gilbert, half brother to Sir Walter Raleigh, approached Queen Elizabeth with his ideas to search for a new route to China in His proposal was not accepted then because of conflict of interest with the Moscovy Company which claimed it held the rights to exploration. However, the publication of this book may have helped Martin Frobisher and Michael Lok succeed in their proposal to explore the Northwest Passage. This map is a much simplified reduction of Ortelius' large cordiform map of Interestingly, no corresponding northeast passage is indicated on the map.
Normalized date 1576

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Accession Number 02169
File Name
Call number D578 B561t
Map title [Map of the world]
Place of Publication London
Publisher Imprinted by Henry Bynnyman, seruant to the right Honourable Sir Christopher Hatton vizchamberlaine
Publication date 1578
Map size height 30 cm.
Map size width 43 cm.
Item description fold-out map, woodcut, facsimile
Geographical description Map of Frobisher's Straits or the Northwest Passage. Cartographic elements include lines of latitude. Also includes the fictitious Frobisher's Straits, Greenland, "America," Iceland, West England, and the western part of Europe.
Source author Best, George, -1584
Source title A true discourse of the late voyages of discouerie, for the finding of a passage to Cathaya, by the Northweast, vnder the conduct of Martin Frobisher generall: deuided into three bookes. : In the first wherof is shewed, his first voyage. Wherein also by the vvay is sette out a geographicall description of the worlde, and what partes thereof haue bin discouered by the nauigations of the Englishmen ...
Source place At London : Imprinted by Henry Bynnyman, seruant to the right Honourable Sir Christopher Hatton vizchamberlaine, Anno Domini. 1578
Cartobibliographic notes This map is a facsimile signed "FS. by I.H.", i.e., John Harris (1791?-1873). Colophon reads: At London, Printed by Henry Bynnyman. Anno Domini Decembris. 10.
Geographic Area Western hemisphere
Historical notes Best was second-in-command on Martin Frobisher's second expedition to discover the Northwest Passage in He was captain of the Anne Frances during the third 1578 voyage. His maps of the regions which Frobisher explored are probably based on detailed charts drafted by James Beare, master of the Anne Frances.
Normalized date 1578
LC bibliographic number b

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Accession Number 17000
File Name
Call number Codex Sp 7 / 1-SIZE
Map title [Descripcion de las Yndias del medio dia.]
Place of Publication [Madrid?]
Publication date [1575]
Map size height 20.8 cm.
Map size width 22 cm. [both pages]
Item description manuscript map; following leaf 37
Geographical description Map of South America. Cartograpical elements include the equator and Tropic of Capricorn, as well as the papal line of demarcation. Also includes some location of rivers and mountains. Some details of location along the Strait of Magellan are numbered for identification in key at left.
Source author Lopez de Velasco, Juan
Source title Demarcacion y diuision de las Yndias
Source place [Madrid?]
References John Carter Brown Library, Annual Report, 1936, p
Geographic Area South AMerica
Historical notes This map alone of the maps in this manuscript (a summary of a larger work by the author, a prominent sixteenth-century Spanish cartographer) was not copied and expanded by Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas in his Historia general, Madrid, It is included in Theodor de Bry's America. Part 12. This manuscript postdates a copy in the Biblioteca national in Madrid (which was made after 1570), but predates the publication of Herrera's book.Image title taken from the verso of the map.
Normalized date 1575

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Accession Number C-7407
File Name C
Call number Cabinet Gg59 PlP
Map title Haec pars Peruvianae, regiones Chicam & Chile[nsem] complectitur, & Regionem Patagonum
Place of Publication Amsterdam
Publisher [Cornelis Claesz]
Publication date [ ]
Map size height 39 cm.
Map size width 55 cm.
Item description Engraved map
Geographical description Map of Peru. Inset at lower right, in strapwork frame: [South America from the Strait of Magellan to the Equator]. "Joannes à Doetechum fecit." at bottom of scale cartouche (lower right). Boldest lettering is "PERUVIANAE PARS," across S. America on map; above title from letterpress paste-on (16 lines in all) in lower right corner on a blank cartouche within the area of the inset. In a blank cartouche to upper left is a similar typographic paste-on, referring to Thomas Cavendish's passage of the Strait of Magellan, reached by him "Anno 1585, [recte, 1587] 6. Ianuarij die" and his finding of islands discovered by Francis Drake and of the famine-stricken remnants of colonies founded by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa in the Strait. It is noted, of Cavenish, that "fretum hoc Magellanicum attigit et in praesentem formam delineavit." The basic cartography resembles that in the map of Sancho Gutiérrez (1551) and of Bartholomeu Lasso (ca. 1590), but reveals later influences especially of Cavendish's voyage. At least 4 names in English appear in southern Patagonia; these are common to what is probably Cavendish's manuscript chart of 1588, now in the Algemeene Rijksarchief, The Hague (see Wieder, Monumenta I, no. 5) and to the terrestrial globe of Emery Molyneaux (1592/1603), preserved in the Middle Temple, London. Decorative details include a figure, apparently of a giant sloth, and representations of Patagonian giants. Contains three scales: Spanish leagues, and Italian and German miles.
References F.C. Wieder, "Toelichting bij de Kaart van Plancius" (and reprod.) in Linschoten-Vereeniging, Werken 9 (1915) p ; ibid., in Linschoten-Vereeniging, Werken 22 (1924), p ; J. Keuning, Petrus Plancius (1946), p. 85; Cortesão, Portugallicae Monumenta Cartographica 3/98, pl. 382a; Helen Wallis, in Merchants and scholars, ed. John Parker, (1965), p. 218, n. 37
Geographic Area South America
Normalized date 1592
LC bibliographic number b
Creator Plancius, Petrus,

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Accession Number 01805
File Name
Call number D589 P954n / 1-SIZE (copy 2)
Map title Orbis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendatus
Place of Publication [London]
Publisher [Christopher Barker, George Bishop and Ralph Newberie]
Publication date 1594
Map size height 40.5 cm.
Map size width 56.9 cm.
Item description fold-out engraved map; following title page
Geographical description Map of the world including North and South America including the Strait of Anian. California is shown as part of the continent. Also includes inset maps of the northern and southern celestial spheres with their constellations. Cartographic elements include lines of latitude and longitude, compass rose, locations of rivers and some topographical details. Decorative elements include representations of people of various lands, including native Americans of Mexico, Peru, and of the Strait of Magellan or Magallanica. Includes elephants, monkey, bird of paradise, toucans, armadillo, scene of cannibalism and warfare, llamas [?], feathered headdress and garment, leopard [?], cornucopia, crocodile, bows, ships, sea monsters or fish.
Source author Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Source title [Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation ] The principall nauigations, voiages and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer land ...
Source place Imprinted at London : y George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes Most Excellent Maiestie., 1589
References Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the World, 187; Church, E.D. Discovery, 139A
Geographic Area World
Historical notes Based on Theodor de Bry's engravings, this map was the first world map to use highly decorative border scenes with allegorical representations of the continents, a style of decoration which dominated seventeenth-century mapmaking. The map also has great importance geographically, particularly for its treatment of the mapping of the Arctic, the Northwest and Northeast Passage, and the Far East. Plancius was one of the first non-Spanish or non-Portuguese cartographers to have access to manuscript portolan maps.
Normalized date 1594
Creator Joannes van Doetecum II
Creator Petrus Plancius

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Accession Number 35379
File Name
Call number J590 B915v GVG 6 / 2-SIZE
Map title America sive Novus orbis respectu Europaeorum inferior globi terrestris pars 1596
Place of Publication Francofurti ad Moenum [Frankfurt am Main]
Publisher Theod. de Bry
Publication date 1596
Map size height 32.6 cm.
Map size width 39.9 cm. [both pages]
Item description engraved map; preceding p. 1
Geographical description Map of North and South America with the northern part of North America included to the Anian Strait and with the Great Lakes missing. Cartographic elements include lines of longitude and latitude, location of rivers and settlements, Northwest Passage, and Strait of Anian. Decorative elements include full-length portraits of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Ferdinand Magellan, and Francisco Pizzaro. Also includes an anchor, compasses, maps, ships, swords, and sea monster or fish.
Source title [America. Pt. 6. German] Das sechste Theil der neuwen Welt. Oder Der historien ... das dritte Buch
Source place Franckfurt : Theod. de Bry, 1596
References Church, E.D. Discovery, 158; Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America, 91
Geographic Area Western hemisphere
Historical notes This map derived from the western hemisphere half of Petrus Plancius's world map, first published in 1594, with a few minor alterations. Antarctica is named Magellanica, and the White/le Moyne cartography of Virginia and Florida is incorporated here for the first time, placing them more accurately on a map.The figure of Pizarro on this map resembles the figure of Columbus in Honorius Philoponus, Nova typis transacta navigatio, Linz, 1621, on a fold-out plate following p. [104].This work was published by Theodor de Bry and is derived from the third part of Girolamo Benzoni, Historia del mondo nuovo, Venice, Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 6. German. Imprint information from colophon.
Normalized date 1596

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Accession Number 01808
File Name
Call number B601 H564h /1-SIZE
Map title Descripcion de las Yndias de Mediodia
Place of Publication Madrid
Publisher En la Emplenta Real
Publication date 1601
Map size height 28 cm.
Map size width 35 cm.
Item description fold-out engraved map, decade 5, following p. 38
Geographical description Map of South America with Peru and Brazil labeled. Includes the Amazon River, Rio de la Plata, and the Strait of Magellan. Also includes the Line of Demarkation.
Source author Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, -1625
Source title Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas i Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano escrita por Antonio de Herrera coronista mayor de Su Md: de las Indias y su coronista de Castilla ... Decada primera [-octaua]
Source place Mad: [i.e. Madrid] : En la Emplenta Real,
Cartobibliographic notes The maps in a manuscript in the JCB collection, Juan Lopez de Velasco, "Demarcacion y diuision de las Yndias," [Madrid, 1575] (a summary of a larger work by the author, a prominent sixteenth-century Spanish cartographer) of the various colonial Spanish tribunals were copied and enlarged here by Herrera y Tordesillas.
References Delgado-Gomez, A. Spanish Historical Writings about the New World, Fig. 10 & 11 (detail)
Geographic Area South America
Normalized date 1601
LC bibliographic number b

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Accession Number 0286
File Name
Call number F602 N818d /1-SIZE
Map title Fretum Magallanicum in quod Olivier a Noort Generalis naium devenit quinto di Novembris Ano 1599.
Place of Publication Amsterdam
Publisher Chez Cornille Claessz. sur l'eau au livre a escrire
Publication date 1602
Map size height 32.5 cm.
Map size width 23 cm.
Item description Engraved map, p. 19
Geographical description Plan of the Strait of Magellan. Includes location of Porto Desire or Puerto Deseado in present-day Argentina. Also includes ships, scales, and a penguin.
Source author Noort, Olivier van, 1558 or
Source title Description du penible voyage faict entour de l'univers ou globe terrestre, par Sr. Olivier du Nort d'Vtrecht, general de quattre navires ... ; elles singlerent de Rotterdame le 2. juillet Et l'an d'aougst y tourna tant seulement la ... navire Mauritius. ... ; Le tout translaté du flamand en franchois
Source place Amstelredame: Chez Cornille Claessz. sur l'eau au livre a escrire, L'an 1602
Cartobibliographic notes Some copies have the full page maps on p. 19 and 27 printed upside down. This copy is one that is printed this way. The engraver may be Johannes Baptista van Doetechum.
Geographic Area South America
Normalized date 1602
LC bibliographic number b
Creator Baptista a Doet[echum]

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Accession Number 0914
File Name
Call number J598 H917s 4
Map title [Nova et exacta delineatio Americae partis australis que est: Brasilia, Caribana, Guiana regnum Novum ...]
Place of Publication [Nuremberg]
Publisher Per Levin: Hulsium
Publication date 1602
Map size height 20.1 cm
Map size width 31.4 cm.
Item description fold-out engraved map; No. 2, following p. 1
Geographical description Bottom half of a map of South America including Strait of Magellan. Cartographic elements include degrees of latitude and longitude, location of rivers and settlements, sea banks or shoals, and some topographical details. Decorative elements include scene of warfare, Patagonian giant, ships, sea monsters or fish.
Source author Schmidel, Ulrich, 1510?-1579?
Source title [Sammlung. Pt. 4. ] Warhafftige Historien einer wunderbaren Schiffart ... von Anno, biss 1554 in Americam
Source place Noribergae : Per Levin: Hulsium, 1602
Cartobibliographic notes Text concerns Schmidel's travels on the Rio de la Plata, Argentina.This is one of a series of accounts of voyages selected, edited, and translated by Levinus Hulsius and others, and known as the Erste-[XXVI] Schiffart or the Sammlung von Sechs und Zwanzig Schiffahrten.
References Bartlett, J.R. Bibliographical notices, 478
Geographic Area South America
Normalized date 1602

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Accession Number 09186
File Name
Call number J590 B915v GVL9 / 2-SIZE
Map title Fretum Magellannicum, ...
Place of Publication [Frankfurt am Main]
Publisher [Matthäus Becker]
Publication date [1602]
Map size height 16 cm.
Map size width 30 cm.
Item description engraved map; pt 2, p. [2]
Geographical description Chart of the Strait of Magellan, showing Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. Cartographic elements include profile of the geography of the strait, sea banks or shoals, scale, dividers, and compass rose. Includes four native American figures: a Patagonian giant [?], a woman giving a bird to a child, a man wearing feathered headdress and garment, and a woman wearing a cloak. Also includes penguin, snail, spear, bow and arrow. Items in image lettered for identification in a key below.
Source title [America. Pt. 9. Latin] Americae nona & postrema pars ...
Source place Francof. : Apud Matth. Beckerum, 1602
References Location: pt 2, p. [2]; Church, E.D. Discovery, 168
Geographic Area South America
Historical notes This work contains three different voyages; Pt. 1 is José de Acosta, Historie naturael ende morael van de Westersche Indien, Haarlem, 1598; Pt. 2 is Barent Janszoon Potgieter, Wijdtloopigh verhael van tgene de vijf schepen, Amsterdam, 1600, here entitled Relatio historica; the appendix and Pt. 3 is Olivier van Noort, Beschryvinghe van de voyagie, Rotterdam & Amsterdam, 1602, here entitled Additamentum nonae partis Americae.
Normalized date 1602