From Ramusio's Navigationi et viaggi. 1563., Has watermark., Includes ill. of ships, sea monsters, etc., Oriented with north to the bottom., Relief shown pictorially., and Sheet measures 31 x 43.5 cm. dgvmp2008.
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Geographic):
Africa--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485-1557. Navigazioni e viaggi
Covers Greece and western Turkey., Includes text, ill., Relief shown pictorially., Sheet measures 54 x 75 cm., Shows locations mentioned in Herodotus, Thucydides, etc., and Some place names in Latin and Greek.
Publisher:
[F. Bertelli?],
Subject (Geographic):
Greece--Historical geography--Maps--Early works to 1800, Greece--Maps--Early works to 1800, Thrace, Eastern (Turkey)--Historical geography--Maps--Early works to 1800, and Thrace, Eastern (Turkey)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Vniversale descrittione di tvtta la terra conoscivta fin qvi
Description:
From: [Italian composite atlases]., Map is made from a new copper plate which is a close copy of Paolo Forlani's world map, which Forlani copied from Giacomo Gastaldi's prototype world map of 1546., Relief shown pictorially., and There are winged cherub heads in the top two spandrels.
Publisher:
Donato Bertelli,
Subject (Name):
Forlani, Paolo and Gastaldi, Giacomo, ca. 1500-ca. 1565
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, 1208 or 9-1283 or 4.
Published / Created:
[15--?]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 575
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Abstract:
In the center of the map is Mecca; the ocean is located on each side along the outer edge of the sheet with the pillars of the earth in the four corners. Great emphasis is placed on Africa and the Nile river. Other places of interest include: Wasteland where nobody lives, Mountains of the Moon, Land of the Slavs and Franks, Gog and Magog, Land of the Turks (Central Asia), Red Sea (rectangular water mass), the Source of life.
Description:
Gift of Thomas E. Marston, Yale '27, in honor of Alexander O. Vietor, Yale '36, in November 1978., Removed from a bound volume., and Tempera and ink.