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Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Mar di Aethiopia vulgo Oceanus Aethiopicus.
Title in Translation:
Sea chart of the Atlantic Ocean.
Publication Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
Publication Date:
1650
Cartographer:
Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
Height:
43 cm.
Width:
56 cm.
Scale:
Scale in German miles
Color:
Colored
Descriptive Notes:
Extends eastward to include South America. The compass rose radiates numerous rhumb lines. "An elongated land mass along the lower border is labelled Terra Australis Incognita probably one of the earliest representations of Australia."
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Oceans
Geographic Focus:
Oceans
Map Use:
Sea chart
Period:
17th c.
Norwich Number:
240
Call Number:
NOR 0240
Source:
Atlantis Majoris (1650)
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0240, p. 276
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Mar di Aethiopia vulgo Oceanus Aethiopicus.