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Thou hast here, gentle reader, a true hydrographical description of so much of the world as hath beene hetherto discouered and is comne to our knowledge

Title: Thou hast here, gentle reader, a true hydrographical description of so much of the world as hath beene hetherto discouered and is comne to our knowledge [cartographic material].
Author: Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615.
Publication: [London : George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1599?]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Cartographic	Restricted use	*KC+++ (1600, Hakluyt)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

1 map on 2 sheets; 43 x 62 cm., sheets 48 x 34 cm. and 48 x 33 cm.

Uniform Title

Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation.

Alternative Title

Wright-Molyneux map

Subjects

Genre/Form

Early maps.
World maps.

Note

Title from text in cartouche.
Second state of map, distinguished by addition of cartouche near southern South America, with text about discoveries of Sir Francis Drake.
From The Principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation ... by Richard Hakluyt.
Described in The Hakluyt handbook / edited by David Beers Quinn. London : the Hakluyt Society, 1974 (second series, volume 145): Helen Wallis, 'Edward Wright and the 1599 world maps,' p. 69-73.

Indexed In (note)

Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world (2001 ed.)
Fite & Freeman. Book of old maps

Call Number

*KC+++ (1600, Hakluyt)

OCLC

805158410

Author

Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615.

Title

Thou hast here, gentle reader, a true hydrographical description of so much of the world as hath beene hetherto discouered and is comne to our knowledge [cartographic material].

Imprint

[London : George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1599?]

Cartographic Data

Scale [ca. 1:65,000,000]. At Equator ; Mercator proj. (W 180°--E 180°/N 72°--S 70°).

Indexed In:

Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world (2001 ed.), 221

Fite & Freeman. Book of old maps, 28

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Place of Publication

England London.

Added Author

Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.

Molyneux, Emery.

Added Title

Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation.

Research Call Number

*KC+++ (1600, Hakluyt)

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