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Image ID: 1956039
The Wright-Molyneux Map of the World.
[Principal navigations : voyages, traffiques and discoveries ...]
(1599)
Image Details
Image Title
:
The Wright-Molyneux Map of the World.
Alternate Title(s)
:
Principal navigations : voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English
Title 2.)
Thou hast here, gentle reader, a true hydrographical description of so much of the world as hath beene hetherto discouered and is comne to our knowledgenation...
Creator
:
Molyneux, Emery -- Cartographer
Additional Name(s)
:
Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615 -- Cartographer
Created Date
:
1599
Specific Material Type
: maps
Notes
:
Exhibited in 2012 in the Map Division as part of Mercator at 500. Only a portion of the full map has been digitized.
Note 2.)
Originally part of *KC+ 1599 (Hakluyt, R. Principal navigations), copy 3: The principal navigations : voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation...
Note 3.)
The map was removed from *KC+ 1599 (Hakluyt, R. Principal navigations), copy 3 and is shelved in *KC+++ (1600, Hakluyt)
Source
:
Maps of the World / Whole
Location
:
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / Rare Books Division
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