Abbozzo della mappa dei viaggi di Marco Polo nella sala dello Scudo del Palazzo ducale di Venezia. (to accompany) Sulle antiche mappe idro - geografiche lavorate in Venezia.

• Main Author: Zurla, Placido, 1769-1834
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: Tipografia Picotti 1818
• Subjects: Exploration; Greenland; Iceland; North Atlantic; Lapland
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Uncolored map. Showing the travels of Marco Polo in East Asia. Map is orientated with south at the top. In the left hand the Northern part of America (Nuova Spagna) with "Terre Incognite d'Antropofagi" (Unknown land of cannibals), "Quiviria", "Sierra Nevada", "Grandes Corrientes", etc. Relief shown pictorially. An ancient hydro-geographical work in Venice, by Placido Zurla in 96 pages of descriptive text, and three uncolored maps. Including: 1- Abbozzo della mappa dei viaggi di Marco Polo . 2- Carta Da Navegar De Nicolo et Antonio Zeni Fvrono In Tramontana Lano M.CCC. LXXX. 3- Abbozzo Del Mappamondo Di F: Mauro Camaldolese Cosmografo Incomparabile alla Meta del Sec. XV. Text and maps includes: Marco Polo's travels, map showing his exploration routes in East Asia, also shows northern part of America, Sierra Nevada, etc., voyages of Nicolo and Antonio Zeno in North Atlantic, map showing North Atlantic, Greenland, Iceland and Lapland, etc., and the last map is a circular planisphere map of the world, made by Fra Mauro.