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The map encompasses the eastern coast of North America, the entire Central and South America and parts of the western coasts of Europe and Africa. Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio is the earliest scale wall map of the New World and the first to use the name "California". [1]
Just ask this guy who bought the map for $50 at an estate sale in North Carolina, only to discover on Antiques Roadshow that it was appraised for a staggering $35,000 to $45,000. 6. Vintage World Maps
In the countryside, Crescentii castles concentrated a cluster of population that depended on them for their defense and were dependable armed members of the Crescentii clientage. After Sergius IV's death (1012), the Crescentii simply installed their candidate, Gregory, in the Lateran, without the assent of the cardinals. A struggle flared ...
The Duchy of Gaeta (Latin: Ducatus Caietae) was an early medieval state centered on the coastal South Italian city of Gaeta. It began in the early ninth century as the local community began to grow autonomous as Byzantine power lagged in the Mediterranean and the peninsula due to Lombard and Saracen incursions.
The only other complete copy was discovered at an auction sale in Luzern in 1932 and is now in the map collection of the Maritiem Museum Rotterdam. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In addition to the complete copies there is a single page showing the North Atlantic in the Mercator atlas of Europe in the British Library . [ 12 ]
Spanish America in 1800, with four kingdoms: New Spain, New Granada, Peru and La Plata The Spanish Empire (yellow) in 1800. Spanish America refers to the Spanish territories in the Americas during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The term "Spanish America" was specifically used during the territories' imperial era between 15th and 19th ...
Americae Sive Qvartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio, 1562. Diego Gutiérrez was a Spanish cosmographer and cartographer of the Casa de la Contratación. [1] He was given this post by royal appointment on 22 October 1554, after the death of his father Diego Gutiérrez [2] in January 1554, and worked on the Padrón Real, the Spanish master map used on all royal sailing ships in the ...
Encastellation (sometimes castellation, which can also mean crenellation) is the process whereby the feudal kingdoms of Europe became dotted with castles, from which local lords could dominate the countryside of their fiefs and their neighbours', and from which kings could command even the far-off corners of their realms.