La Terra De Hochelaga Nella Nova Francia
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A good example of the scarce and important first edition of this historically interesting map. This is the first map to detail any North American settlement, identifying the site of present-day Montreal and one which records the meeting of the explorer Jacques Cartier with the local Iroquois Indians at the stockaded village of Hochelaga. Giovanni Battista Ramusio's "Navigationi Et Viaggi ...", in which this map was published, was one of the sixteenth century's major references to early discoveries and the world beyond European shores. The work incorporated about a dozen maps, possibly prepared by the highly respected Italian mapmaker Giacomo Gastaldi.
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