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Nordenskiöld No. 226
Located in: Ptolemy: Geographia, Venice, Fratelli, 1598. The second part of the atlas in which this map is located is dated 1597. Below and on recto of the map there is Italian text. Foliation no 202 is on the recto. The map has longitudes and latitudes. Most of Canada is blank and has few recognizable features. For other editions see Phillips 405 (See Note 1). "The maps (by Porro) are of the same number and printed from the same plates as those of the Latin original" (See Note 2).
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(Note 1) Phillips, Ph. L.: A List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress. Washington, 1909. Vol. I. p. 155-6. (Note 2) Nordenskiöld, A. E., Facsimile: Atlas to the early history of Cartography, Stockholm, 1889, p. 28, no. 39.