Collection search - Descrittione Del Mappamondo [cartographic material]

Porcacchi's world map is a finely executed reduction of Camocio's Wall Map of 1567, one of the last wall maps to follow Gastaldi's wall map of 1546. The map shows a narrow strait between America and Asia. California is shown as a peninsula. Limited information on the east coast, although Florida is named. No obvious entry for either the Hudson or St. Lawrence Rivers The Amazon is depicted, but flowing north-south. Massive southern continent shown, along with a north polar land mass.
Copperplate engraving.
"193" appears in upper right corner above the decorative design and title.
On verso "194 Descrittione Del Mappamondo"
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 193.
Oval map of the World, set in a page of text, with relief shown pictorially

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

Shirley, Entry 127, Phillips, Entry 167, plate no 193, Sabin, Entry 64148, Wagner, vol.II, Entry 108

Text in Italian.

Scale indeterminate.

The microfiche version is NMC 27663

Date of issue based on information appearing in Phillips's entry. Map carried page number 193 in the 1576 edition.