Detail View: Charting The Nation: ORCADVM et SCHETLANDIAE INSULARVM accuratissima descriptio [1 of 1]

Work Record ID: 
0043933
Shelfmark: 
Gough Gen Top 224
Holding Institution: 
The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Title: 
ORCADVM et SCHETLANDIAE INSULARVM accuratissima descriptio
Imprint: 
Amstelodami : sumptibus, Ioannis Ianssonu, [1659]
Creator: 
Jansson, Jan (b.1588, d.1664)
Creator Role: 
Publisher
Creator: 
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (b.1571, d.1638)
Creator Role: 
Mapmaker
Creator: 
Hondius, Hendrik (b.1597, d.1651)
Creator Role: 
Associated Person
Date: 
1659
Description: 
This map was copied from Blaeu's map of the same title which was printed in 1630; it was also issued in Hexham's English edition of the Mercator-Hondius atlas, published by Henry Hondius in 1636 and in the Johannes Janssonius' 1646 edition of the Novus atlas.
Work Type: 
Printed map/plan
Material: 
Paper
Technique: 
Uncoloured
Subject Place: 
Orkney
Subject Place: 
Scotland
Subject Place: 
Shetland
Reference: 
Moir, D.G., Early maps of Scotland, 3rd. ed., v.2, 1983, p.214.
Reference: 
Skelton, R.A., County atlases of the British Isles 1579-1850, v.1, 1970, pp.80-88, 113-114.
Related Work Title: 
Ioannis Ianssonii Novus atlas, sive theatrum orbis terrarum in quo magna Britannia. Amstelodami : apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1659.
Related Work Notes: 
Host Item
Rights Statement: 
© 2002 The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
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ORCADVM et SCHETLANDIAE INSULARVM accuratissima descriptio [1 of 1]
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