The north part of America

Attribution:

Renold Elstracke

Date:

1625

Description:

Considered one of the most important cartographic contributions of the seventeenth century, this was the first English map to show California as an island. Although written Spanish accounts of the “island” existed, the publication and dissemination of this work had a profound influence on European cartography of the Americas. Soon after, the practice of depicting the “goodly Islande” became commonplace. Generally found under its full title: The north part of America: conteyning Newfoundland, New England, Virginia, Florida, New Spaine, and Noua Francia in Samuel Purchas’s Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes

Bib. Reference:

Publisher London : Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone

Bancroft call number:

ff G3300 1625 .B7 vol. 3

Digital image courtesy of:

Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library