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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
31982
File Name:
31982-1
Call number:
Cabinet A556 F1 Map
Map title:
[Map of the world]
Place of Publication:
[Venice]
Publication date:
[1556]
Map size height:
46.4 cm.
Map size width:
41.8 cm.
Item description:
engraving
Geographical description:
Map of the world in two thirty-six gore hemispheres. This image is the left sheet of a two-sheet map and is a north polar projection including North America, Caribbean islands, and northern part of South America. Cartographic elements include lines of latitude and longitude and some topographical details. Decorative elements include a medaillon portrait of Claudius Ptolemy.
References:
Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 99, plate 85; Gallo, R. "Antonio Florian," Imago Mundi VI: 35-38; Tooley, R.V. "Maps in Italian atlases," Imago Mundi III: 23
Geographic Area:
World
Historical notes:
The engraver's initials may be included above the medaillon portrait of Antonio Florian on right sheet of this set, "I.F.C." or Joannes Franciscus Camotius [?]. The map is directly copied from Mercator's double-cordiform map of 1538.
Normalized date:
1556
Creator:
Antonio Florian

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