East coast by Girolamo Ruscelli. 1574
This map of the east coast is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548. The nomenclature and cartography are unchanged, with the exception of the depiction of the rivers. Here he borrowed the assumption of Ramusio that the Hudson and St. Lawrence Rivers, as we know them today, were connected upriver.
Here in this third state, additional names have been added, notably "Virginia" and "Estotilandia". The blank sea has been decorated with a ship and sea monster, and there are additional mountains engraved to fill the blank area in the west.
Girolamo Ruscelli (1504 (1518?) -1566)
Girolamo Ruscelli was an Italian mathematician and cartographer who worked in Venice in the early 16th century. He was also an alchemist who wrote pseudonymously as Alessio Piemontese.
He published a translation of the Geografia of Ptolemy, printed in Venice by Vincenzo Valgrisi in 1561. It was a quarto edition with Ptolemaic and modern maps. The engravers may have been the brothers Giulio and Livio Sanuto. Among the 69 copperplate maps were 40 based on maps by Giacomo Gastaldi. The maps were re-issued in 1562, 1564, 1574 and 1598.
Tierra Nueva.
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Category: Antique maps > America > North America
United States (Northeast), by Girolamo Ruscelli.
Title: Tierra Nueva.
Cartographer: Giacomo Gastaldi.
Engraver: Giulio & Livio Sanuto.
Date of the first edition: 1561.
Date of this map: 1574.
Copper engraving, printed on paper.
Image size: 190 x 250mm (7.48 x 9.84 inches).
Sheet size: 205 x 280mm (8.07 x 11.02 inches).
Verso: Italian text.
Condition: Excellent.
Condition Rating: A+.
From: La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Nuovamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano da Girolamo Ruscelli. Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1574. (Karrow, p. 222 30/C.1)
This map of the east coast is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548. The nomenclature and cartography are unchanged, with the exception of the depiction of the rivers. Here he borrowed the assumption of Ramusio that the Hudson and St. Lawrence Rivers, as we know them today, were connected upriver.
Here in this third state, additional names have been added, notably "Virginia" and "Estotilandia". The blank sea has been decorated with a ship and sea monster, and there are additional mountains engraved to fill the blank area in the west.
Girolamo Ruscelli (1504 (1518?) -1566)
Girolamo Ruscelli was an Italian mathematician and cartographer who worked in Venice in the early 16th century. He was also an alchemist who wrote pseudonymously as Alessio Piemontese.
He published a translation of the Geografia of Ptolemy, printed in Venice by Vincenzo Valgrisi in 1561. It was a quarto edition with Ptolemaic and modern maps. The engravers may have been the brothers Giulio and Livio Sanuto. Among the 69 copperplate maps were 40 based on maps by Giacomo Gastaldi. The maps were re-issued in 1562, 1564, 1574 and 1598.
