This important early map devoted to the East Coast of North America is based on Giacomo Gastaldi's map of 1548, which combined data from the Verrazano and Cartier voyages. The cartography is unchanged, with the exception of the depiction of the Hudson and St. Lawrence rivers (unnamed), which are shown connected upriver, a notion he borrowed from Ramusio. Bermuda is named off the Florida coast as La Bremuda. Present-day New England is identified as Tierra de Nurumberg, an early appearance of Norumbega. Engraved on copper by Giulio and Livio Sanuto in the unmistakable Italian style. This is the first state, with Latin text on verso, published in 1562.

See also lot 738 for Philip Burden's The Mapping of North America - A List of Printed Maps 1511-1700 that describes this map.

References: Burden #30; Kershaw #19; McCorkle #561.2; Mickwitz & Miekkavaara #216-61.

Condition: A

A dark impression on a sheet with an anchor medallion watermark, with some printer's ink residue and marginal soiling.