Collection: Osher Collection

Name: America siue India Nova, ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui Vniversalis imitationem in compendium redacta. Per Michaelem Mercatorem Duysburgensem.

Barcode: 396

Image Number: 396.0001

Creator: Mercator, Michael, -1600

From Atlas: Yes

Publishing Location: Amsterdam

Notes: Includes notes and decorative floral border. Inset maps of the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, and Haiti. Text on verso in French: L'Ameriqve

Title Translation: America or New India edited into a compendium in imitation of the great universal one of Gerard Mercator, grandfather, by Michael Mercator, of Duisburg

Alternative Title: America, sive, India Nova

Brief Description: Map of the Western Hemisphere showing the polar regions and numerous islands in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, including New Guinea

Physical Description: 1 map: colored, illustrated

Date/Date Range Produced: 1633

Date/Date Range Published: 1633

Language: FrenchLatin

Region Depicted: AntarcticaArctic regionsAtlantic OceanAzoresCanary IslandsCape VerdeCaribbean regionCentral AmericaNew GuineaNorth AmericaPacific OceanSouth AmericaWest IndiesWestern Hemisphere

Map Type: Geographical

Dimensions: Hemisphere 34 cm. in diameter on sheet 45 x 53 cm.

Printing Process: Engraving

Printing Technique: Copper

Material Type: Paper

LC Call Number: G3290 1633 .M4

OCLC: 50729326

Accession Number: OS-1633-5

Donor: Osher

Subjects: AntarcticaArctic regionsAtlantic OceanAzoresCanary IslandsCape VerdeCaribbean AreaCentral AmericaFlowersInsectsMaps--Early works to 1800Mercator, Michael, -1600New GuineaNorth AmericaPacific OceanSouth AmericaVignettesWest IndiesWestern Hemisphere

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/396.0001