Vinckeboons, Joan. Library of Congress. cartographic map cartographic image dcu 1650 monographic [ca. 1650] spa

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1 map : ms., col. ; 48 x 69 cm. "Joan Vinckeboons (1617-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was in the employ of the Dutch West India Company and produced maps for over 30 years for use by Dutch mercantile and military shipping. He was a business partner of Joan Blaeu, one of the most important map and atlas publishers of the day. Vinckeboons drew a series of 200 manuscript maps that were used in the production of atlases, including Blaeu's Atlas Major. This map from around 1650 shows California as an island. A half-century would pass before Spanish explorers determined with certainty that California was connected to the mainland of North America. Place names are carefully indicated on the map in red and black, and include, for example, Cape San Lucas (at the tip of present-day Baja California), Mexico, and the Tres Maria Islands off the coast of the Mexican mainland. The map is part of the Henry Harrisse Manuscript Collection in the Library of Congress." World Digital Library. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Scale [ca. 1:7,000,000]. California Maps, Manuscript Early works to 1800 United States California G3291.S12 coll .H3 Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3291s.mf000074 v. 2, map 10] 99443375 hdl:loc.gmd/g3291s.mf000074 aacr DLC 990608 20250607184540.0 5576077 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)