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Author	Speed, John, 1552?-1629.
Title	America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings / discribed and inlarged by I.S. ano. 1626 ; Abraham Goos Amstelodaminsis sculpsit.
Imprint	[London] : Are to be sold in Pops-head alley against the Exchange by G. Humble, [1627?]

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Location	Call No.	Status	Message
Schwarzman Building (42nd Street & 5th Avenue) - Maps	Map Div. 97-7386	AVAILABLE	USE IN LIBRARY

Cartographic Data	Scale [ca. 1:45,000,000].
Description	1 map : hand col. ; 36 x 45 cm.
Series	[Heading West ; 5]
Note	Relief shown pictorially.
	Appears in John Speed's Prospect of the most famous parts of the world.
Indexed In:	Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America, 217
	Wheat, C.I. Mapping the Transmississippi West, I, 39
	Deák, G.G. Picturing America, 23
	Lowery 106
	Wagner, H.R. Cartog. of the NW coast, 301b
Note	Includes text, inset of Greenland, col. ill. of native figures and town views in margins.
	Text on verso.
Subject	America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Added Author	Goos, Abraham.
	Humble, George, d. 1640.
	Speed, John, 1552?-1629. Prospect of the most famous parts of the world.
	John H. Levine Bequest.
Donor/Sponsor	National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Call No.	Map Div. 97-7386 [Levine]
Research Call Number	Map Div. 97-7386 [Levine]