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
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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 us...