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MELA, Pomponius (fl. 37-42 A.D.). Nouvellae etati ad geographie. [Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1482.]
Woodcut world map, image 133 x 187 mm (154 x 206 mm sheet).
THE SECOND WOODCUT MAP PRINTED IN ITALY (Campbell p.119) is the first to depict current Portuguese knowledge of the west coast of Africa which led only six years later to the rounding of the Cape of Good Hope. Campbell suggests that the edition's printer, Erhard Ratdolt, may have been the mapmaker, since this and his T-O map of 1480 are the two earliest woodcut maps printed in Italy. Campbell, Earliest Maps, 91; Shirley 8; Suarez Shedding the Veil 7.
Woodcut world map, image 133 x 187 mm (154 x 206 mm sheet).
THE SECOND WOODCUT MAP PRINTED IN ITALY (Campbell p.119) is the first to depict current Portuguese knowledge of the west coast of Africa which led only six years later to the rounding of the Cape of Good Hope. Campbell suggests that the edition's printer, Erhard Ratdolt, may have been the mapmaker, since this and his T-O map of 1480 are the two earliest woodcut maps printed in Italy. Campbell, Earliest Maps, 91; Shirley 8; Suarez Shedding the Veil 7.