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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
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Accession Number:
0236
File Name:
0236-2
Call number:
B524 C828p
Map title:
[Map of Temixtitan and map of the Gulf of Mexico]
Place of Publication:
[Venice]
Publisher:
[Per Bernardino de Viano de Lexona Vercellese. Ad instantia de Baptista de Pederzani Brixiani]
Publication date:
[1524]
Map size height:
30 cm.
Map size width:
46 cm.
Item description:
fold-out woodcut map; last leaf
Geographical description:
Map of a city identified as Temixtitan [actually Tenochtitlán, present-day Mexico City]. Built environment includes a sacrificial temple [the Templo Mayor], causeways, buildings, dwelling and gardens of Montezema. A map of the Gulf of Mexico is given.
Source author:
Hernán Cortés, 1485-1547
Source title:
[Cartas. Carta 2a. Italian] La preclara narratione di Ferdinando Cortese della Nuoua Hispagna del Mare Oceano, al sacratissimo, [&] inuictissimo Carlo di romani imperatore sempre augusto Re Dhispagna, [&] cio che siegue, nella [n]no del Signore
Source place:
Stampata in Venetia : Per Bernardino de Viano de Lexona Vercellese. Ad instantia de Baptista de Pederzani Brixiani., Anno Domini. M.D.XXIIII.
Cartobibliographic notes:
Cortés first published his second letter in Nuremberg, 1524. The above edition was published in Venice later in the same year. The Nuremberg edition map of the Gulf of Mexico is the first printed map to portray the outline of the Caribbean basin (and the first to mention Florida); it is also the first printed depiction of an American city.
References:
Wolff, H. America, 108
Geographic Area:
South America
Normalized date:
1524
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