America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings Discribed (sic) and inlarged (sic)

Subject

North and South America.

Date
1626 (historical)
Mapmaker
Speed, John; Abraham Goos, engraver
Publisher

Humble, George

Place of Publication

London

Accession Number
1982.077.072
Alternate number
Seiferth Collection
Condition
Good.
Curatorial Notes

See Phillips, Vol. I, p. 190, #442.

Exhibition History
1996 Sep - Mar 30, 1999, So Much More than Just A Map.
Insets
[Greenland]
Market Value
1999 Jun: Old Print Shop, On line catalog, item #86, $9,500.00
1982 appraisal: $2,600.00
Notes

Plate 5 from Speed's 1631 "A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World." The work from which this map was taken, the first world atlas published by an Englishman, was famous for its border panels depicting the costumes of Native American in South and North America. Small border cartouches illustrate images of villages in the Caribbean islands and South America.

Size
14 x 17 1/4
Storage
c02d03