Girolamo Ruscelli: Isola Cuba Nova
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Cartographer:
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Girolamo Ruscelli
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Title:
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Isola Cuba Nova
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Date:
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1574
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Published:
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Venice
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Width:
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10 inches / 26 cm
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Height:
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8 inches / 21 cm
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Map ref:
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WIND3655
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Description:
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Early copper-engraved map of Cuba, one of the earliest available maps of the island. Jamaica and Haiti also appear. Published in Ruscelli's 1574 edition of Ptolemy's "Geographia" as one of a handful of modern maps. Based on, and slightly enlarged from, a rare 1548 map by Giacomo Gastaldi.
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