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Universale nova [cartographic material]

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Date:

1548].

Reference:

R11981-447-4-E, Volume number: 8

Item no. (creator):

Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection #7

Local class no.:

H3/10000/[1548]

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3984678

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Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection

World maps

Universale nova
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Date(s):

1548].

Place:

[Venice:

Place of creation:

Italy

Publisher:

per Gioa Baptista Pedrezano,

Extent:

1 map : ill., b.& w. ; 13 x 17 cm on sheet 17 x 21 cm.

Language of material:

Italian

Scope and content:

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World map that has North America joined to Asia along nearly its entire length. North and South America are linked by a narrow isthmus.

Provenance:

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Gastaldi, Giacomo, 1500?-1566

Biography/Administrative history:

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Gastaldi, Giacomo, 1500?-1566 : Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, "E-J", Early World Press, 2001, p. 142: "Italian astronomer, cartographer and engineer from Villafranca, Piedmont. By 1539 he was active in Venice, producting numerous general maps as well as engineering and waterways maps for the Venice area. By the 1540's he had developed his own distinctive style of copper engraving for his increasingly prolific output of maps. His maps were used as a source by many mapmakers including Camocio, Bertelli, Forlani, Ramusio, Cock, Luchini and Ortelius. Gastaldi died in Venice."

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General note:

On Verso: text on right hand side titled "Dell'Vniversale". "59" appears on the bottom of the page.
Illustrated by six windheads with thier names surrounding the oval map.
From: La geografia di Clavdio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, con alcuni comenti & aggiunte fatteui da Sebastiano Munstero alamanno, con le tauole non solamente antiche & moderne solite di sta[m]parsi, ma altre nuoue aggiunteui di Meser Iacopo Gastaldo Piamo[n]tese osmographo, ridotta in uolgare Italiano da M. Pietro Andrea Mattiolo Senese medico eccelle[n]tissimo . 1548, map no 59.
Pictorial relief.

Custodial history:

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

Citation/reference note:

Shirley, Entry 87, Sabin, Entry 66502

Cartographic math data:

Scale indeterminate.

Availability of other formats note:

The microfiche version is NMC 27659

Exhibitions note:

Over the Rockies: The Discovery & Mapping of the Canadian West 1700-1886.
An Exhibition held at the The Royal Ontario Museum, March and April, 1956

Related material:

For other copies or editions see: AMICUS No. 26306192 (G1005/1548 copies 1- 3/ fol. vault.

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Vniversale nova [cartographic material]

Subject heading:

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World - Maps - Early works to 1600

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 [R11981] NMC27659

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R11981]

[Consultation 90 Open]

8 Item no. assigned by LAC 8

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit Library and Archives Canada.
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