Image Title

:  Tierra nveva.

Creator

: Gastaldi, Giacomo, ca. 1500-ca. 1565 -- Cartographer

Additional Name(s)

: Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 1565  -- Cartographer
Sanuto, Livio, 1520-1576  -- Engraver
Sanuto, Giulio, 1540-1580  -- Engraver

Published Date

: [1598?]

Item Physical Description

: 1 map ; 17 x 23 cm.

Notes

: Appears in Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino. 1598. Note 2.) At upper right corner: 128. Note 3.) Attributed to Giacomo Gastaldi, with engraving by Giulio and Livio Sanuto--Burden. Note 4.) In upper margin: Descrittone dell'America. Libro quarto. Note 5.) Includes ill. Note 6.) Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 655. Note 7.) National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard. Note 8.) Probably 3rd state, based on description in Burden. Note 9.) Relief shown pictorially. Note 10.) Text on verso. Note 11.) Signature: Eee ; Catchword: DEL-

Standard Reference

: Burden. Mapping of North America, 30

Source

: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection of English maps, charts, globes, books and atlases / Charts and maps

Location

: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division

Catalog Call Number

: Map Div. 97-6375 [LHS 655]

Digital ID

: 434500

Record ID

: 253120

Digital Item Published

: 2-3-2004; updated 3-25-2011