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Stock# 42665
Description
Nice example of Porcacchi's early sea chart / map of world, from Porcacchi's L'Isole Piu Famose Del Mondo…
The map clearly illustrates a number of the great myths of 16th Century Cartography, including the large southern continent, Northwest Passage, odd shape of South America, etc.
Reference
Shirley 128.
![Planisphere Physique ou l'on voit du Pole Septentrional ce que l'on connoit de Terres et de Mers Avec les Grandges Chaines de Montagnes . . . [Bay or Sea of the West]](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/98378.jpg)
