- Bib ID:
- 2053855
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Porcacchi, Tommaso, 1530-1585
- Online Version:
-
- Scale:
- Scale [ca. 1: 270 000 000]
- Description:
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- [Venetia : appresso S. Galignani and G. Porro, 1572]
- 1 map ; 7.1 x 14 cm., on sheet 27.2 x 18.8 cm.
- Notes:
-
- Oval world map set in a page of text, with relief shown pictorially.
- Plate from: L'isole piu famose del mondo descritte da Thomaso Porcacchi, da Catiglione Arretino e intagliate da Girolamo Porro Padovano al sereniss, principe et sigre. il s. don Giovanni d' Austria...
- Engraved in copper by Girolamo Porro, this map also shows Timor and "Terra de Luchac". Beach, Lucach and Maletur were locations in Terra Australis first mentioned by Marco Polo.
- Also available in a digitised form via the Internet at http://image.sl.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/ebindshow.pl?doc=crux/a127;seq=17
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231746668
- Cited In:
-
- Phillips, 166.
- Shirley, 127.
- Subject:
- World maps -- Early works to 1800
- Time Coverage:
- 1572
- Other authors/contributors:
-
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
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