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![Hollandiae Batavor[um] veteris insulae locorum adiacentium exacta descriptio /, [Jacob van Deventer] ; Paulo Furlano Veronen[sis] incidente.](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.sourcelibrary.org%2Farchived%2F69b525d49658af9164709ed1%2F1.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Hollandiae Batavor[um] veteris insulae locorum adiacentium exacta descriptio /, [Jacob van Deventer] ; Paulo Furlano Veronen[sis] incidente.
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The work is a 16th-century cartographic print (a map) by Jacob van Deventer. Cartographic works of this nature, consisting primarily of place names and cartouches on a map, are not literary texts and are not subject to formal translation in the sense of a book. Extensive searches across major library and scholarly catalogs yielded no evidence of any English translation of this specific map.
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See the Netherlands exactly as they appeared to a 16th-century mapmaker. This document reveals how Jacob van Deventer measured the ancient Batavian landscape and its surrounding waters. You will learn the specific scale and technical standards that defined geography in 1563.