Image Title

:  America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings / discribed and inlarged by I.S. ano. 1626 ; Abraham Goos Amstelodaminsis sculpsit.

Creator(s)

: Goos, Abraham -- Engraver
Speed, John, 1552?-1629 -- Cartographer

Additional Name(s)

: Humble, George, d. 1640  -- Publisher

Published Date

: [1627?]

Medium

: Engravings -- Hand-colored

Specific Material Type

: Maps

Item Physical Description

: 1 map : hand col. ; 36 x 45 cm.

Notes

: [Heading West ; 5] Note 2.) Includes text, inset of Greenland, col. ill. of native figures and town views in margins. Note 3.) John H. Levine Bequest. Note 4.) National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard. Note 5.) Relief shown pictorially. Note 6.) Text on verso. Note 7.) Appears in John Speed's Prospect of the most famous parts of the world.

Standard Reference

: Wheat, C.I. Mapping the Transmississippi West, I, 39; Lowery 106; Wagner, H.R. Cartog. of the NW coast, 301b; Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America, 217

Source

: John H. Levine Collection

Location

: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division

Catalog Call Number

: Map Div. 97-7386 [Levine]

Digital ID

: 465247

Record ID

: 292171

Digital Item Published

: 9-29-2005; updated 7-11-2008