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Il Disegno del discoperto della nova Franza, [cartographic material] ilquale s'è havuto ulti, mamente dalla novissima navigatione dè Franzesi in quel luogo, nel quale sivedono tutte l'Isole, Porti, Capi, et luoghi fraterra chein quella sono / Venetijs aneis formis Bolognini Zalterij Anno. M.D.L.X.V.I.

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Date:

1566.

Reference:

R11981-401-2-E, Volume number: 150

Item no. (creator):

Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection Item # 150

Local class no.:

H3/1000/1566 (state 2 copy 1)

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3951458

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Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection

North America

Il Disegno del discoperto della nova Franza,
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Date(s):

1566.

Place:

Venetijs:

Place of creation:

Italy

Publisher:

Bolognini Zalterij,

Extent:

1 map : b.& w. ; 27 x 39 cm on sheet 40 x 53 cm.

Language of material:

Italian

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Item is an engraved map of North America showing Greenland, the West Indies, South America, the coast of China in the west and the Azores and Cape Verde in the east.
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Cartographer: Forlani, Paolo

Cartographer: Gastaldi, Giacomo, 1500?-1566

Cartographer: Zaltieri, Bolognino, fl. 1550-1580
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Pictorial relief.
This is a second state of Paolo Forlani's rare and finely engraved map of North America which is the earliest printed map devoted solely to North America, the first to portray that landmass as a separate continent and the first to show the so-called Strait of Anian separating America from Asia at the approximate location of the Bering Strait. Forlani based his rendering largely on the western part of a world map published by his colleague, the great Venetian cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi, several years before. Gastaldi had been the first to formulate the concept of the Strait of Anian, a name that probably originated with Ania, a Chinese province mentioned in a 1559 edition of Marco Polo's travels. Forlani's early graphic depiction of Gastaldi's mistaken theory, which persisted well into the eighteenth century, makes this map a cornerstone work in the mapping of America. In the early 1560s, Forlani also published a map of South America and the West Indies, La descrittione de tutto il Peru. According to the reserach of David Woodward Zaltieri purchased some of Forlani's copperplates in late 1565 or early 1566 and added his imprint information " Venetijs aeneis formis Bologinini Zalterij Anno M.D.L.X.V.I."
On verso: Hand written in the upper right hand corner "Mare settentrionale Incgnito"
Contains watermark: Tree in Shield C as described in David Woodward's "Catalogue of watermarks in Italian Printed Maps, ca 1540-1600" No 133.
Copperplate engraving.

Custodial history:

Part of the Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection purchased by the Public Archives of Canada in 1981.

Citation/reference note:

Burden, Entry 33, State 2. 1566., Woodward, David. The maps and prints of Paolo Forlani : a descriptive bibliography, 1990., Shirley, Rodney W. The mapping of the world. London : Holland Press, 1983, 106., McCorkle, Barbara New England in Early Printed Maps 1513 to 1800. Entry 566.1 (p.9), Goss, John " The Mappong of North America: Three centuries of map-making 1500-1860", Entry 10.

Cartographic math data:

Scale indeterminate.

Availability of other formats note:

Microfiche: NMC 22900.

Exhibitions note:

'Up North' The Discovery and mapping of the Canadian Arctic 1511-1944 , An Exhibition held at the Royal Ontarion Museum April 1958., "Plotting the Land of Ontario, 1564-1919" A Joint exhibit by the Canadiana Department, R.O.M. ; MacDonald Ophthalmic Foundation ; Ontario Department of Public records and Archives to Coincide with the 5th Annual Conference of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries, held at Torotonto, May 26-28, 1971., "Discovery and Mapping of Upper Canada" An Exhibition held at the Canadiana department Royal Ontario Museum , May-December 1967, Canada on Maps 1564-1616: Stratford Festival Exhibition, 1966.

Date of issue:

Date of issue based on imprint information appearing in the title cartouche.

Related material:

For other states and copies of this map see: Mikan 3972419; Mikan 3951438 (NMC 22901); Mikan 3974085 (NMC 6577).

Subject heading:

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North America Early works to 1800

Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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80101/245 CA
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Cartographic material

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Microfiche [R11981] NMC22900

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Volume [R11981]

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150 Item no. assigned by LAC 150

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Copyright: expired.
Credit: Library and Archives Canada.

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