Mappa antica "Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio" (Mappa del Mondo) G. Rosaccio, 1598

Ptolemy’s Geographia by Rosaccio and later reissued in Lasor a Varea’s. Universus Terrarum Orbis Scriptorum (1713). A rare early world map, first published in the 1598 edition of. The map also depicts early Northwest and Northeast Passages and a detailed Asia, predating Le Maire and Schouten’s discovery of open waters south of Tierra del Fuego.

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