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• Author/Creator:Mercator, Michael, d. 1600.
  
• Title:America, siue, India Nova : ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui vniversalis imitationem in compendium redacta / per Michaelem Mercatorem, Duysburgensem.
  
• Published/Created:[Amsterdam? : s.n., between 1613 and 1630]
  
• Physical Description:1 map : hand col. ; 33.8 in diam.
  
• Links:View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database (Cross 70 1595)
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: Cross 70 1595
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: Folio C 2010 2b
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Cartographic detail:Scale not given.
  
• Local Notes:BEIN Cross 70 1595: Sheet measures 47.7 x 58.2 cm. Cross Collection no. 115.
  
• Notes:Relief shown pictorially.
  Includes notes and decorative floral border.
  Ancillary maps: Golfo Mexicano, Cuba, Haiti nunc Hispaniola.
  Verso: signature "M" on page 39, page 40. Text in Latin.
  Map was published in "Atlas sive Cosmographicae" by Jodocus Hondius in 1613. Map was again published in the 1623 and 1630 edition by Henricus Hondius.
  
• Variant and related titles:America, sive, India Nova
  
• Format:Map
• References:Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici 1:104, 1:105, 1:107
  Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America, 87
  
• Subjects:America--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  Western Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  
• Genre/Form:Maps.
  
• Also listed under:Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612. Atlas sive Cosmographicae.
  Hondius, Hendrik, 1597-1651. Atlas sive Cosmographicae.
  Wilde Americk: Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, September 27, 2001-December 30, 2001)