Manuscript on paper made by an unknown Venetian mathematician, astronomer and cartographer. This manuscript is highly interesting for the excellent drawings of contemporary Mediterranean sailing-ships
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Islands of the Mediterranean.
Subject (Topic):
Atlases, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sailing ships
BEIN 1976 1233: Imperfect: map "New Guinea, &c." [no. 2 of America] wanting. Map "Virginia and Maryland" [no. 19] bound following "Carolina and Bermudos" [no. 20]. Additional map, "Asiae antiquis simae ... ex aevi antiqui tenebris eruit Wilhelmus Stuk...
BEIN 1976 1233: Map of the English Channel [24] bound between Italy [19] and Lombardy [20]. No. 1 of 2 works bound together.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Nicholson at the King's-Arms in Little Britain, Benj. Barker and Charles King ..., Benj. Tooke ..., Hen. Clements ..., R. Parker and Ralph Smith under the Royal-Exchange ...
Imperfect: map nos. 62-67 from ms. table of contents wanting ("North America / Berry," "English plantations in America / Morden," "Virginia, Maryland, Pensylvania [sic], New Jersey," "The Improv'd parts of Pensylvania [sic]," "Carolina," and "The seat...
