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Porcacchi's North America 1572
Porcacchi's North America 1572
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Description
Heading: (America)
Author: Porcacchi, Tomaso
Title: Mondo Nuovo
Place Published: Venice
Publisher:
Date Published: 1572
Description: Engraved map, hand-colored (later). 10.3x14 cm (4x5½“), on sheet with text measuring 26.7x19 cm (10½x7½“).Compelling map of the North America, a reduced version of the Paolo Forlani map produced seven years earlier. This is the first state of the map, on a page with text, and the first issue, with the last line of text above the map beginning “di Santa Croce...“ The continent depicts the vastly elongated extension of the eastern seaboard, the Strait of Anian, a rather odd bulge in the California peninsula and Giapan (Japan) just offshore. Burden 42.
Condition
Several small creases, a few repairs to the page but not the map itself; very good.
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Porcacchi's North America 1572

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