Collection search - The "Ramusio Map". La carta universale della terra fierma et isole delle indie occide[n]tali, cio del mondo nouo eatta per dichiaratione delli libri delle indie, cauata da due "Carte Da'Nauicare Fatte in Sibilia de li Piloti Della maiesta cesaria. Con Gratia et priulimeigo della illustrissima signoria di venetia p[er] ANNI XX. [cartographic material]

Map of North and South America, engraved on wood. We know of only two copies of this map: one is inserted in a bound copy of the Italian abridgement of Pedro Martyr and Oviedo, Historia de l'Indie occidentali, edited by Ramusio in 1534 at Venice, which copy is now in the New York Public Library. The other copy of the map, in seperate form, is in the John Carter Brown Library. Public Archives of Canada, Sixteenth Century Maps relating to Canada: a check-list and bibliography, (Ottawa, 1956), no. 159.

The microfiche version is NMC8143