Content: Relief shown pictorially.
Content: A re-engraved version of a map previously published for Henri Seile in 1652 under the title "Americae descriptio nova" and subsequently re-published from the same engraving as the 1652 map for Phillippi Chetwood in 1666.
Content: Appears in Peter Heylyn's "Cosmography in four books", 1677.
Content: Watermarks.
Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Statement Of Responsibility: impensis Anæ Seile ; Rob. Vaughan sculp.

Physical Description

Engravings
Extent: 1 map : hand col. ; 34 x 41 cm.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 36042062
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14025116
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 223d08c0-004e-0130-ab48-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1663

Cite this item

MLA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Americæ nova descriptio" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1663. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/223d08c0-004e-0130-ab48-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1663). Americæ nova descriptio Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/223d08c0-004e-0130-ab48-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Americæ nova descriptio" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 9, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/223d08c0-004e-0130-ab48-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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