Collection search - Universale descrittione di tutta la terra conosciuta fin qui [cartographic material] / Ferando Berteli Exc. 1565

Pictorial relief.
Copperplate engraving.
Map appears to be State 4 as listed in Shirley, having Bertelli's imprint only.
"5" appears in bottom right margin of map.
Paolo Forlani's third world map derived from Giacomo Gastaldi's 1546 prototype world map. It has the same title as that of 1562 but it is in two sheets and considerably larger, a very large and extensive southern continent had been added. As well as imaginary mountain ranges, Forlani has populated his terra incognita with a host of unlikely animals - among them a lion, a camel, an elephant, a rhinoceros, a griffin and a unicorn. While the oceans contain a number of sailing ships and sea monsters. The map depicts North America as being joined to Asia.

From the Venetian composite atlas known as the "Lloyd Triestino Atlas", owned at one time by the Lloyd Triestino Shipping Company in Trieste and later by George H. Beans of Philadelphia. Purchased in May 1977 from H. P. Kraus, New York. Appeared in H.P. Kraus Catalogue 132, no.3, p. 6.

Shirley, Entry 115, State 4., Tooley, R.V. " Maps in Italian atlases of the Sixteenth Century, being a comparative list of Italian maps issued by Lafreri, Forlani, Duchetti, Berteli and others found in Atlases," Imago Mundi, III, p. 11-47. (p. 11.), Wagner, vol. 2, Entry 56, p. 281, Wagner, vol. 2, Entry 66, p. 282

Microfiche : NMC 13294.

Treasures of the National Map Collection, Public Archives of Canada: An exhibition 100 original maps, atlases, globes and architectural plans, 1490-1982. 17 August 1982 to 9 January 1983. Entry 5.

For other copies see: Mikan 4151164; Mikan 4218276 (NMC 22899) copy 2.