A map fit for a King (1976 title)

Facsimile. Oval world map (Verrazanno type) with four vignettes in the corners and twelve winds. Rand McNally's Christmas Card for 1976, reproduced with the title "A Map fit for a King...A gift of the mighty Emperor Charles V to his exalted son, Prince Philip". Written description folds around the map. Original in John Carter Brown Library. Bibliographical note: H.R. Wagner, "The Manuscript Atlases of Battista Agnese", Bibliographical Society of America, 1931, page 1-110, especially pages 32 and 74.

Object Details

ID: G301:1/15
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Agnese, Battista; Rand McNally & Co
Date made: 1542; 1976; 1542 1976
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London