NOVI ORBIS SIVE TOTIUS AMERICÆ CUM ADIACENTIBUS INSULIS Nova exhibitio.

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Type of resource	cartographic
Extent	1 map : hand col.; 27.6 x 34.3 cm. including border.
Place	Nuremberg
Date created	[1725]
Map data	[ca.1:70,000,000] ; W 160° --E 20°/N 90° --S 90°

Creator	Weigel, Christoph, 1654-1725

Note	California as large island on second Sanson model, with many coastal place names and mountain chain in the north. "TERRA ESONIS" to northwest, with peninsula labelled "Anian".
Note	Title cartouche (lower left) surrounded by natives offering rolls of tobacco and a pipe-smoking European.
Note	Weigel's map entitled "Nova tabula Americæ" is identical, except for title cartouche.
Statement of responsibility	[Weigel, Christoph the Elder].
References	LC/Atlases 568,569,582; Tooley 90, Leighly 158.
Original McLaughlin Book Number (1995 edition)	204
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/ft811cs8254

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The Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island

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