Tierra Nueva. (to accompany) Ptolemeo. La geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo alessandrino . In Venetia, . per Gioan. Baptista Pedrezano . Anni x. M.D.XLVIII (1548).

• Main Authors: Ptolemy, Claudius, Gastaldi, Giacomo, Mattioli, Pietro Andrea, 1500-1577, Pedrezano, Giovanbattista
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Gioan. Baptista Pedrezano 1548
• Subjects: Classical; Breton Island; Canada; Long Island; Util; Verrazzano
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First map of the North American East Coast, and the first map largely devoted to Canada. The map extends from Labrador to Florida. Discoveries reported by Giovanni di Verrazano (1524)and Jacques Cartier's 1st voyage (1534). Several place names used in the map for the first time, are still in use today, including Larcadia (Acadia), Breton (Cape Breton Island), and Labrador. Tierra del Bacalaos, noted by Verrazzano the land of Bacalaia. Tierra de Nurumberg for New England was discovered by Verrazanothe in 1524 voyage, which included ''Larcadia'' (part of North Carolina's coast); Angoulesme (New York Harbor); Flora (south coast of Long Island); and Narragansett Bay. Map shows place names. The first pocket atlas and the first edition of Ptolemy's Geographia in Italian, also the first engraved Ptolemy edition since Berlingheri in 1482. Maps engraved on copper by Giacomo Gastaldi, the foremost Italian cartographer of the 16th century, marking a turning point in the history of cartography, mostly based on those of Munster woodcuts in the Latin edition of 1540. Nordenskiold noted that "Copper engraving was reintroduced into the service of cartography" as it was the first atlas in the 16th century to use this process. Maps are accompanied by descriptive text printed on the backs. It is likely the most important atlas published between Waldseemuller's 1513 Ptolemy and Ortelius's Theatrum of 1570. The translation was made by Pietro Andrea Mattioli, the famous botanist. The atlas contains 60 double page copperplate maps, 26 of Ptolemy, supplemented by 34 Modern maps, woodcut title page, illustrated page of "Ptolemeo degli astronomi prencipe ." and text. Bound in contemporary limp vellum covers with title inked on spine. Most of the Ptolemy and Modern maps showing illustrations of ships, sea monsters, fishes, trees, figures, landmarks and place names. Every where in this atlas are indications of Gastaldi's effort to use the most up-to-date geographical information available. Atlas includes the first engraved maps of part ...