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Discorso intorno alla carta da navigare [cartographic material]

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Date:

1576].

Reference:

R11981-458-9-E, Volume number: 14

Item no. (creator):

Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection Item #14

Local class no.:

H3/10000/[1572]

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4002353

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Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection

World maps

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Date(s):

1576].

Place:

[Venice:

Place of creation:

Italy

Publisher:

s.n.,

Extent:

1 map : hand col. ; 10 x14 cm on sheet 30 x 20 cm.

Language of material:

Italian

Provenance:

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Porcacchi, Tommaso, 1530- 1585

Additional name(s):

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Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604

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General note:

"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.

Custodial history:

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

Citation/reference note:

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

Cartographic math data:

Scale indeterminable.

Availability of other formats note:

The microfiche version is NMC 27662

Date of issue:

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

Subject heading:

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Nautical charts - World

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 NMC27662

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R11981]

[Consultation 90 Open]

14 Item no. assigned by LAC 14

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit Library and Archives Canada.
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