This map of America, unlike many that would be published over the following centuries, features an a
This map of America, unlike many that would be published over the following centuries, features an attached California (and a rather lumpy South America). Notes in Latin describe explorations and features of the area.This beautiful geographical work, published in several volumes, is a slightly later edition of Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania’s most famous work, L’universale fabrica del mondo, ovvero cosmografia.Book: L’universale fabrica del mondo, overo cosmografia / dell’ ecc. Gio. Lorenzo d’Anania. Venetia : presso il Muschio, 1582. -- source link
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