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RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista (1485-1557) and Giacomo GASTALDI (fl.1539-1566). Universale della Parte del Mondo Nuovamente Ritrovata. Venice: Giunta, 1556.
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RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista (1485-1557) and Giacomo GASTALDI (fl.1539-1566). Universale della Parte del Mondo Nuovamente Ritrovata. Venice: Giunta, 1556.
First state of this important map of the Western Hemisphere, the first printed map of the Americas to include any of the names from the travels of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado of 1540-42.
Woodcut map of the Americas, image 272 x 265 mm (307 x 400 mm sheet). (Minor chipping and light browning along margins, minor splitting along center-fold repaired on verso.) Matted and framed. Burden 24.
Issued in Ramusio's Terzo Volume delle Navigationi et Viaggi, which contains an account of Coronado's explorations. “Coronado was the first European to travel extensively the southwestern part of North America… He was searching for the great cities of Cibola and Quivera, both of which proved disappointing… The Sierra Neuadas appear for the first time, following the voyage of Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo, in 1542, when he sailed two vessels along the Californian coastline as far as Santa Barbara” (Burden). First state, printed from the first block (destroyed in a fire in November 1557), with the entire title on the left and paginated 455-456. Burden 24; Wagner, Northwest Coast 35.
First state of this important map of the Western Hemisphere, the first printed map of the Americas to include any of the names from the travels of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado of 1540-42.
Woodcut map of the Americas, image 272 x 265 mm (307 x 400 mm sheet). (Minor chipping and light browning along margins, minor splitting along center-fold repaired on verso.) Matted and framed. Burden 24.
Issued in Ramusio's Terzo Volume delle Navigationi et Viaggi, which contains an account of Coronado's explorations. “Coronado was the first European to travel extensively the southwestern part of North America… He was searching for the great cities of Cibola and Quivera, both of which proved disappointing… The Sierra Neuadas appear for the first time, following the voyage of Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo, in 1542, when he sailed two vessels along the Californian coastline as far as Santa Barbara” (Burden). First state, printed from the first block (destroyed in a fire in November 1557), with the entire title on the left and paginated 455-456. Burden 24; Wagner, Northwest Coast 35.