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Porcacchi's map of North America was published in his Isolario (island book) entitled "L'Isole Piu Famose Del Mondo". The map was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is a reduced-size version of Paolo Forlani's landmark map produced seven years earlier, the first map of North America as an entity. Set in a page of Latin text the map shows some interesting cartography - Florida is small and bulbous, numerous small islands are depicted in the Atlantic between North America and Africa, and further mythical islands appear in the Pacific where the Strait of Anian, separating Asia from North America, appears in one of its earliest forms. A little old inking appears, although all printed detail remains clear on this attractively coloured example.
region: Maps of North America
mapmaker:
T.Porcacchi
place and date of publication:
Venice 1572 -1620
medium and colour:
copperplate, Coloured
ref:
34630
size in cms: 14 x 10.5 literature: Burden, The Mapping Of North America, 42. Price: £ 850 |
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