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Map of Mauritsstad and Recife

Title in the Leupe Catalogue (NA): Kaart als voren. Grondteyckening van het eylandt Anthony Vaaz, het Recyf ende Vastelandt aen de haven van Pernambuco in Brasil; so als deselve nu tegenwoordich voor de Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie, met Forten, Redoubten, en ander wercken syn voorsien. Cf. National Archive, The Hague, inv. nrs. VELH0619.74 and VEL0711. This chart was drawn by the same mapmaker as National Archive, The Hague, inv. nr. VEL0711. On this chart, however, the surname begins with an L, on VEL0711 with a B

Date
1631
Mapmaker / publisher
Andreas Drewisch Bongesaltensis (land surveyor / mapmaker)
Place
the West-Indische Compagnie
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
atlas page
Original size
2,400 × 1,938 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

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"Map of Mauritsstad and Recife" (1631). Andreas Drewisch Bongesaltensis (land surveyor / mapmaker), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AMH-8582-NA_Map_of_Mauritsstad_and_Recife.jpg

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