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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
C-0165-000
File Name:
C-0165-000
Call number:
Cabinet A552 /1
Map title:
[World map]
Place of Publication:
[Florence?]
Publication date:
[1552?]
Map size height:
19.9 cm. (platemark)
Map size width:
29 cm. (platemark)
Item description:
engraving
Geographical description:
World map on oval projection. North and South America are shown with North America as part of China. Cartographic elements include lines of latitude and longitude, location of some rivers and settlements (Temitistan, or Tenochtitlán, is noted), some topograpical details, and six classical heads.
Cartobibliographic notes:
Known as the "Florentine Goldsmith Map" (a title given by the booksellers, Ellis & White, who sold it), this map may have been copied from a manuscript map in the portolan atlas by Giorgio Calapoda, dated 1552. Lower California appears as a peninsula (its first reported appearance on a dated map was in 1542), but the Amazon River (first shown on a dated map in 1546) is not included here. Includes the false Sea of Verrazano.
References:
Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 98, plate 84; Wroth, L.C. Verrazzano, p. 194-195, 299, 318 plate 33
Geographic Area:
World
Normalized date:
1552

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