AMERICA with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings Discribed and inlarged by I.S.Ano.1626

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Type of resource	cartographic
Extent	35.2 x 43.7 cm., 39.5 x 51.2 cm. including border.
Place	[London]
Publisher	Thomas Bassett and by Richard Chiswell
Date created	[1676]
Map data	[ca. 1:46,000,000]. ; W 160° --E 20°/N 90° --S 90°

Creator	Speed, John, 1552?-1629

State 4	[1676], "are to be sold by Thomas Bassett in Fleet Street, and by Richard Chiswell in St. Paul's Churchyard." The text on verso is rewritten and there is no fleuron heading. Map is still dated 1626. Issued in his: The Theatre of Great Britaine, London, 1676.
References	LC 442 and 488; Wagner 301b; Wheat 39; Tooley 2, 3, 4, 5 (Plate 27); Leighly 6 (Plate IV); UCB; Goss (Plate 25); Burden 217 (Plate 217); Clancy (Map 7.6).
Note	California with flat northern coast and with place names mostly taken from Brigg's map. Inset: The northerly part of America (upper left). The borders of the map on the top contain plans of towns and on the sides figures of the inhabitants of different countries. Text on verso paged 9 and 10. Engraved by: Abraham Goos Amstelodamiensis Sculpsit (lower right).
Original McLaughlin Book Number (1995 edition)	3
Original McLaughlin book number (1995 edition) with latest state information	3-04
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/yt748wr2779

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The Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island

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