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PETER WHITFIELD

MAPS IN THE HISTORY OF EXPLORAT ION

Routledge

NEW YORK

Taylor

Fnmds Croup

Half-title: The Cape of Good Hope, by Seller, 1675. The most

famous maritime landmark in the world, later the base for British

expansion into Southern Africa.

The British Library Maps C.8.b. 13, f.25.

Title page: Waldseemiiller's World Map, 1507.

Schloss Wolfegg

Peter Whitfield 1998

Published in the United States of America and Canada in 1998 by

Routledge

711 ThirdAvenue,

New York, NY

10017, USA

First published in 1998 by

The British Library

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor

Francis Group, an informa business

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Whitfield, Peter, Dr.

New found lands: maps in the history of exploration

Peter

Whitfield.

em.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-415-92026-4 (alk. paper)

1. Discoveries in geography. 2. Cartography-History.

Title.

081.W47 1998

97-47767

910'.9-dc21

CIP

Typeset by Bexhill Phototypesetters

ISBN 13: 978-0-415-92026-1 (hbk)