Research Catalog

Title

Caarte van West Indien, soo vaste landen, als eylanden : nieuwelyckx met veele perfexien gecorigeert ende verbeetert, ende alle clippen, droochteen, ree[d]en, haavens, rivieren, steeden, en[de] bergen. et[c] daar in genoteert soo die ghelege zyn / Joan Vinc:Boons fecit.

Author

Vinckeboons, Joan

Publication

Tot Amsterdam : By Gerard Valk en Petrus Schenk, [approximately 1700]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651-1726
• Schenk, Peter, 1661-1711

Description

1 map : hand. col.; 50 x 71 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 404.

Alternative Title

Caarte van Westindien, soo vaste landen, als eylanden

Subjects

• Central America
• Middle Atlantic States
• Caribbean Area
• New Spain
• Central America > Maps > Early works to 1800
• Atlantic Coast (South Atlantic States) > Maps > Early works to 1800
• Early maps
• Gulf Coast (Mexico) > Maps > Early works to 1800
• Middle Atlantic States > Maps > Early works to 1800
• Caribbean Area > Maps > Early works to 1800
• West Indies > Maps > Early works to 1800
• New Spain > Maps > Early works to 1800
• Gulf Coast (U.S.) > Maps > Early works to 1800
• Sailing ships
• Maps

Genre/Form

• Maps.
• Early maps.

Note

• Relief shown pictorially.
• Map is a combination of a sea chart and a land map. It covers the coastal United States from southern New Jersey down to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico with New Spain, the West Indies, the Greater and Lesser Antilles, Central America, and the Atlantic coast of South America to British Guiana.
• Title from cartouche in upper left hand corner of map.
• Name of creator appears above neat line in bottom center of map.
• Place of publication and names of publishers from text in upper right hand corner of map.
• Suggested date of publication supplied by Burden.
• This map represents state three of the plate with the cartouche in the upper right erased and the following engraved in its place: Heroes hodierni argonautae in occiduo: of Hedendaagscher helden-toght, met oorlogs vloten en heirlegers over zee getrocken, Virg: erunt etiam altea bella oceani finem juxta solemq[ue] cadentem, tot Amsterdam by Gerard Valk en Petrus Schenk. Also, the author statement in bottom center of map has been shortened. According to Burden, the first state of this map appeared around 1655.
• Map is crossed with rhumb lines.
• Approximate scale derived from lines of latitude.
• Bar scales given in Dutch miles, Spanish miles, and English and French miles.
• Graphic elements include sailing ships.

Indexed In (note)

• Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America

Language (note)

• Text of the map primarily in Dutch with some text in Latin.

Call Number

Map Div. 97-6623

OCLC

1226089020

Author

Vinckeboons, Joan, creator.

Title

Caarte van West Indien, soo vaste landen, als eylanden : nieuwelyckx met veele perfexien gecorigeert ende verbeetert, ende alle clippen, droochteen, ree[d]en, haavens, rivieren, steeden, en[de] bergen. et[c] daar in genoteert soo die ghelege zyn / Joan Vinc:Boons fecit.

Publisher

Tot Amsterdam : By Gerard Valk en Petrus Schenk, [approximately 1700]

Cartographic Data

Scale approximately 1:7,500,000 (W 102°--W 58°/N 40°--N 6°).

Type of Content

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Indexed In:

Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America, 314

Language

Text of the map primarily in Dutch with some text in Latin.

Place of Publication

Netherlands Amsterdam.

Added Author

Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651-1726, publisher.

Schenk, Peter, 1661-1711, publisher.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 97-6623 [LHS 404]