Orbis terrarum cognitus veteribus Graecis et Latinis.
Appears in Dionysius's Orbis terrae descriptio. * At lower left corner: Pag. 2. * Includes coat-of-arms. * Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection; 1032. * National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard. * This map names only the three continents known to the classical ancient world. * "Nobili juveni Jacobo Dno. Compton Honmi. Comitis Northamptoniae filio natu maximo tabulam hanc Geographicam D.D.D. Edvardus Wells."
- Date
- 1709
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Scan by NYPL
- Archive
- New York Public Library (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- chart
- Original size
- 4,339 × 3,152 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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