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Map Die neuwen Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India ligen Title on verso: New weldt oder Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India ligen

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Title

  • Die neuwen Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India ligen

Other Title

  • Title on verso: New weldt oder Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India ligen

Names

  • Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552

Created / Published

  • [Basel, Switzerland : Sebastian Münster, 1550?]

Headings

  • -  Western Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  Western Hemisphere

Genre

  • Early maps

Notes

  • -  Relief shown pictorially.
  • -  South America labeled in German, geographic features otherwise in Latin.
  • -  Appears in the author's Cosmographei. Basel, Switzerland. 1550.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
  • -  Exhibited: Rivers, edens, empires: Lewis & Clark and the revealing of America, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., July 24-Nov. 29, 2003.
  • -  Fold-lined.

Medium

  • 1 map : hand col. ; 26 x 35 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3290 1550 .M8

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Münster, Sebastian. Die neuwen Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India ligen. [Basel, Switzerland: Sebastian Münster, ?, 1550] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2005630224/.

APA citation style:

Münster, S. (1550) Die neuwen Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India ligen. [Basel, Switzerland: Sebastian Münster, ?] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2005630224/.

MLA citation style:

Münster, Sebastian. Die neuwen Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India ligen. [Basel, Switzerland: Sebastian Münster, ?, 1550] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2005630224/>.