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[La Nuova Francia.] [cartographic material]

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Date:

1606].

Reference:

R11981-644-6-E, Volume number: 302

Item no. (creator):

Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection #302

Local class no.:

H3/900/[1565](1606)

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4143520

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Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection

Canada (Including Eastern Canada up to 1780)

[La Nuova Francia.]
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Date(s):

1606].

Place:

[Venetia:

Place of creation:

Italy

Publisher:

Appresso i Giunti,

Extent:

1 map : woodcut ; 27 x 37 cm on sheet 31 x 42 cm.

Language of material:

Italian

Scope and content:

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The first printed map devoted to New England and New France, showing the eastern seaboard from New York Bay to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The map is the first to use the name New France and one of the earliest to delineate New York Harbor and Manhattan with any accuracy.
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Gastaldo, Jacopo

Cartographer: Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485-1557
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General note:

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The original wood engraving was made to illustrate Giovanni Battista Ramusio: Navigationi et viaggi (Venice, 1556). See Johann G. Kohl, "A history of the discovery of the east coast of North America, particularly the coast of Maine; from the Northmen in 990 to the charter of Gilbert in 1578": Documentary history of the state of Maine (Portland, Maine Historical Society, 1869), pl. XI; Justin Winsor: Narrative and critical history of America (Boston and New York, 1889), IV, 91; Henry Harrisse: Découverte et évolution cartographique de Terre-Neuve et des pays circonvoisins 1497-1501-1769 (Paris, 1900), 252; Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes: The inconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 (New York, 1916), II, pl. 14; William Francis Ganong: Crucial maps ..., Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1934, Sec. II, 153.
Pictorial relief.
Includes illustrations showing the flora and fauna as well as the Indigenous peoples, sea monsters and sailing ships.
In upper left margin: 353
In upper right margin: 354

Custodial history:

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

Citation/reference note:

Kershaw, Entry 15B, Burden, Entry 25, Burden, Entry 35, 1606 (Block 2)

Cartographic math data:

Scale indeterminate

Availability of other formats note:

The microfiche version is NMC21062

Exhibitions note:

Up North: The Discovery and Mapping of the Canadian Arctic, 1511-1944" An Exhibition held at The Royal Ontario Museum April 1958

Date of issue:

Date of issue basedon information appearing in Burden and Kershaw.

Related material:

For other copies and or states see Mikan 4361540 (NMC 8684) ; Mikan 4147790 (NMC 52408] ; Mikan 3017758

Container note(s):

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302 : Former container label was "900 NEW FRANCE/NOUVELLE FRANCE [1565](1606)".
Subject heading:

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New France Early works, 1651-1700

New England - Maps - Early works, 1651-1700

Canada, Eastern
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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80101/245 CA
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Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]
Original can be viewed in the presence of an early cartographic archivist. Microfiche version is open.

Microfiche [R11981] NMC21062

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R11981] 302

[Consultation 90 Open]

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