Description: A facsimile of an early map of the Atlantic Ocean and the Americas by Baptista Agnese in 1536. The key is as follows: — "(1) Terra de bacalaos. (2) (dotted line) El viage de france. (3) (dotted line) El viage de peru. (4) (dotted line) El viago a maluche. (5) Temistitan. (6) Iuacatan. (7) Nombre de dios. (8) Panama. (9) La provintia de peru. (10) La provintia de chinagua. (11) S. Paulo. (12) Mundus novus. (13) Brazil. (14) Rio de la plata. (15) El Streto de ferdinando de Magallanas."
Place Names: Western Hemisphere, North Americ
ISO Topic Categories: oceans,
location,
inlandWaters,
boundaries
Keywords: Agnese Map, borders,
physical, oceans,
location,
inlandWaters,
boundaries, Unknown, 1536
Source: Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America (vol. 4) (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1884) 40
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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