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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

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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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"Orbis terrarum cognitus veteribus Graecis et Latinis." (1709). Scan by NYPL. New York Public Library, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orbis_terrarum_cognitus_veteribus_Graecis_et_Latinis_(NYPL_b15417153-464974).jpg

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