细节
SEILE, Henry. Americae Nova descriptio Impensis Henrici Seile 1652. London, 1652.
Hand-colored engraved map, image 339 x 428 mm (360 x 450 sheet). (Trimmed to image and remargined, small loss to upper border at center.) Matted and framed.
Seile's map of North and South America, depicting California as an island, is based on Abraham Goos' map of America, published in Speed's atlas of 1627. Issued in Heylin's Cosmography 1652, this is state 1 with the imprint of Henry Seile dated the same year. Burden 308; McLaughlin 13; Tooley p. 115, 11.
Hand-colored engraved map, image 339 x 428 mm (360 x 450 sheet). (Trimmed to image and remargined, small loss to upper border at center.) Matted and framed.
Seile's map of North and South America, depicting California as an island, is based on Abraham Goos' map of America, published in Speed's atlas of 1627. Issued in Heylin's Cosmography 1652, this is state 1 with the imprint of Henry Seile dated the same year. Burden 308; McLaughlin 13; Tooley p. 115, 11.