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"198" appears in upper left corner.
Paduan Girolamo Porro engraved this handsome nautical world map. It was one of two world maps included in Porcacchi's popular pocket-sized atlas. It covers most of the world, excluding Far Eastern Asia and the western coast of North America. The "Terra Incognita" landmass dominates the bottom of the map, which is criss-crossed with rhumb lines
Text on verso in Italian.
From Porcacchi's L'isole piu famose del mondo descritte da Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione Arretino e intagliate da Girolamo Porro, padouano, con l'aggiunta di molte isole, 1576, plate 198.
Pictorial relief.

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

Shirley, Entry 128, Phillips, Entry 167, Sabin, Entry 64149

Scale indeterminable.

The microfiche version is NMC 27662

Date of issue based on information appearing in Phillip's Entry 167. Map carried plate number 198 in the 1576 edition