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Nova et exacta delineatio Americae partis avstralis. qve est : Brasilia, Caribana, Gviana regnum nouum, Castilia del Oro, Nicaragva, insulae Antillas et Perv. Et sub Tropico Capricorni, Chile, Rio della Plata, Patagonv, & Fretv Magellanicv̄.

Hulsius, Levinus, d. 1606.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[2nd ed.]
Noribergae : per Leuinum Hulsium, a. 1602.

NOTES
Title appears on upper sheet of the map; no indication of title or imprint on lower sheet.

The map was engraved for the second edition of the fourth part of Hulsius' collection of voyages, which consists of 26 parts. In this second edition of the map, three islands have been inserted below the bottom border of the lower map, with the name "Francisi Draco Ins." Several new names were added to this edition of the map, along with the west coast of South America, as well as the plate mark "No. 2" in the lower left corner of the lower map. -- Drake coll.

Reference: Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 52

Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus.

Scale ca. 1:22,000,000.

SUBJECTS
South America--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Caribbean Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800.
South America.
Caribbean Sea.

RELATED NAMES
Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)

MEDIUM
1 map on two sheets ; 46 x 32 cm. on 2 fold. sheets (27 x 33 cm. and 23 x 32 cm.)

CALL NUMBER
G5200 1602 .H8

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650

DIGITAL ID
g5200 rb000009 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g5200.rb000009

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