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Stock# 63014
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Giovanni Petroschi
Title
[Unrecorded State] America Secondo le ultime osservazioni dell'Accademia Reale delle Scienze
Publication Place / Date
Rome / 1787
Image Dimensions
5.5 x 6.5 inches
Color
Hand Colored
Condition
VG
Stock# 63014
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Description

Unrecorded map of America showing California as an island, engraved by Petroschi for an Italian edition of Buffier's Geographie Universelle

This edition, listed Petroschi as the mapmaker, was unknown to McLaughlin.

The full title of the book, as listed by Baynton Williams in Mapforum #9, is 

NOUVA / GEOGRAFIA / DEL P. BUFFIER / EDIZIONE SECONDA ROMANA / CORRETTA ED ACCRESCUITA NOTABILMENTE / DI MOLTE INTERESSANTI NOTIZIE PARTI- / COLARMENTE DE PRESENTI CANGIA- / MENTI DI EUROPA / COLL'AGGIUNTA IN PRINCIPIO DEL TRATTO DELA SFERA / DEL P. JACQUIER / ED IN FINE DI UNA GEOGRAFIA SACRA / COMPILATA DA UN FILETTANTE PER INTEL- / LIGENZA DELLA SACRA SCITTURA / IL TUTTO RACCOLTO / DA UN / P.L. DI M. / [engraving] / IN ROMA MDCCLXXXVII. / A spese di Venanzio Monaldini Mercante di Libri. / NELLA STAMPERIA DI GIO: ZEMPEL / Con licenza de' Superiori

Rarity

This is the first time we have ever seen the map.

Condition Description
Minor toning
Reference
McLaughlin, California as an Island #70-73.
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