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Title

[Dominica, Buchima, S. Martino, Santa, S. Maria Antica, S. Maria Rotonda, Moferato] [cartographic material] /  

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Item (linked) part of

America: Western Hemisphere - South [cartographic material] (R11981-4-3-E)

Date(s)

[ca. 1547

Place

Venice

Place of creation

Italy

Extent

2 maps on 1 sheet : back to back, hand col. ; 7.8 x 14.1 cm or smaller on sheet 16 x 20 cm.

Scope and content

Shows several islands that make up the area in the Caribbean Sea known as the Lesser Antilles. On verso is the Isalnd of Guadalupe and the part of Dominica.

Conditions of access

Cartographic material
90: Open
Original can be viewed in the presence o
f an early cartographic archivist.
Item no. (creator)
Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection #143
Cartographic material
90: Open
Item no. assigned by LAC
143
90: Open
Archival reference no.
R11981-84-5-E
Other accession no.
80101/245 CA

Terms of use

Credit Library and Archives Canada. Copyright expired.

Additional name(s)

Bordone, Benedetto.

Additional information

Maps appear to be upper half of page cut from atlas. Text at bottom of both maps matches text appearing in the 1547 atlas. Maps in atlas are in black and white. Map on verso depicts the island of Guadalupe and part of Domicia. The map of Guadalupe has relief shown pictorially.

Woodcut map.

Custodial history
Part of the Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection purchased by the Public Archives of Canada in 1981.

Source of title
Title taken from information on map and plate listing in Philips.

Related materials
For other copy see: Isolario di Benedetto Bordone: nel qualsi ragiona di tutte l'isole del monde con li lor nomi antichi & moderni, historie, fauole, & modi del loro viuere, & in quai parte del mare stanno, & in qual parallelo & clima giaciono. 1547. AMICUS NO 26306112.

Citation / reference note
Phillips, Philip Lee " A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress", 1909, entries 162, 163, 164, 165.

Availability of other formats note
The microfiche version is NMC 191058

Varying form of title

Guadalupe 

Subject heading

Lesser Antilles - Maps - Early Works to 1600.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

CARTO22093

MIKAN no.

3716415