Published in Paris.

Hand coloured copperplate engraving from the book

'Universus Terrarum Orbis Scriptorum Calamo Delineatus'. This nautical world map, originally engraved by Girolamo Porro, was one of two world maps included in Tomaso Porcacchi's popular pocket-sized atlas, first published in 1572. It covers most of the world, excluding Australia; far Eastern Asia and the Western coast of North America; thus alluding to a connection between the two.

The Terra Incognitalandmass dominates the bottom of the map. The handsome map is filled with rhumb lines and the seas are fully stippled. Lasor a Varea, whose real name was Raffaello Savonarola, published a two-volume scriptural and historical dictionary that included nearly 500 maps. The maps were taken from old plates, many of which were more than a century old, and often reworked. On a partial sheet of Latin text.

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