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Creator: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598.
Title: Americae sive novi orbis nova descriptio [cartographic material].
Scale: Scale indeterminable.
Publisher: Barking, England : Elsevier, 1964.
Date: 1964
Material Type: Map
Physical Description: 1 map : col. ; 35 x 48 cm.
Notes: "Original copy ... belongs to the Library of the State University of Leyden [Netherlands] ... reproduced from the first impression of the first edition [of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1570, Aegidius Coppen Diesth]".

Facsim. of: Antverpiae, 1570.

Map of America with relief shown pictorially.

Nova Guinea merges with Magellanica, Terra del Fuego and the austral continent.

Text on verso.

Phillips, 374; Rex Nan Kivell Collection Map NK 10921.
Subjects: America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
America -- Maps -- Facsimiles.
New Guinea -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
New Guinea -- Maps -- Facsimiles.
America -- 1570.
America -- 1964
New Guinea -- 1964
Call Number: MAP G3701.S1 1964
Amicus Number: 10039563
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nk10921