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Title page of ‘Nova Reperta’ (New Inventions) [Object]
Engraving of the title page of Nova Reperta, signed ‘Ioan. Stradanus inuent. Phls Galle excud.’ Contains small numbered pictures of the inventions and discoveries. No. 1 is a hemispherical map of...
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The Indians of Florida Worship the Column (plate VIII) from ‘America Part II (Florida)’ [Object]
Based on the only surviving watercolour by Jacques Le Moyne this engraving depicts the French commander René de Laudonnière being welcomed by Chief Athore during the second expedition to Florida....
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A chieff Ladye of Pomeiooc [Object]
Hand-coloured copperplate engraving. Plate VIII from de Bry's 'America Part I (Virginia)', part of his 'Les Grands Voyages' series. The plate is based on a watercolour by John White...
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A weroan or great Lorde of Virginia [Object]
Hand-coloured copperplate engraving. Plate III from de Bry's 'America Part I (Virginia)', part of his 'Les Grands Voyages' series. The plate is based on a watercolour by John White...
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Views of Mexico City (formerly Tenochtitlán) and Cusco from ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum’ (Cities of the World) [Object]
Maps of Mexico City and Cusco from ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum’. Hand coloured copperplate engraving. Both maps represent the cities and the surrounding hills. Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) was founded by the Aztecs...
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America sive novus orbis… (America or the New World…) [Object]
Circular map of the Americas. Hand-coloured copperplate engraving with Latin text. Born in the Spanish Netherlands, Theodor De Bry came from a family of jewellers and engravers. A religious dissenter, he...
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Their sitting at meate [Object]
Hand-coloured copperplate engraving. Plate XVI from de Bry's 'America Part I (Virginia)', part of his 'Les Grands Voyages' series. The plate is based on a watercolour by John White...
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Nova Francia (New France) [Object]
Monochrome copperplate engraving showing the North Atlantic including the landmasses of eastern Canada, western Europe and modern-day Morocco. In spite of the thriving commercial map and chart trade in the Netherlands,...
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Plan of St. Augustine (Florida) [Object]
With north at right, Boazio’s bird’s-eye view is the first printed map of a city in what was to become the United States. St Augustine had in fact been built...
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Gored World Map in Two Hemispheres [Object]
Addressing the Doge of Venice, in his 1555 application for the exclusive privilege of printing a world map, Antonio Florian mentions that it had caused him ‘so much drudgery and...
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