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Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio

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Original – Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio, a map of the New World by Diego Gutiérrez and Hieronymus Cock from 1562. The map is the first to use the name "California" and remained the largest map of the Americas for a century.

Reason

Following the previous nom, it looks like the British Library copy is more faithful than that of the LoC with clipped borders. And now there is also a dedicated article.

Articles in which this image appears

Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio, Age of Discovery, Mercator 1569 world map

FP category for this image

Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps

Creator

Diego Gutiérrez, Hieronymus Cock

• Support as nominator --Brandmeister^talk 17:14, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Cue shampoo commercial soundtrack. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:48, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support Amandajm (talk) 02:00, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support-- Nice pic.. Herald talk with me 12:06, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support Particularly like all the weird little sea monsters and sea gods. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 13:29, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Gutiérrez, the Americas, 1562.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:16, 24 March 2014 (UTC)