Ancient World. Anonymous, Abbozzo del Mappamondo..., circa 1800

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Ancient World. Anonymous, Abbozzo del Mappamondo di F. Mauro Camaldolese Cosmografo Incomparabile alla Meta del Sec. XV. Gia' Esistente Nella Biblioteca Di S. Michele Di Murano Ora Nella Marciana, circa 1800, uncoloured engraved circular map displaying a conjectural mediaeval view of the world, with astrological diagrams in three corners with a circular view of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in the fourth, old folds, 380 x 380 mm, together with Zeno (Nicolo). Carta da Navegar de Nicolo et Antonio Zeni Furono in Tramontana Lano MCCCLXXX, circa 1818, uncoloured engraved map of a partly fictitious depiction of the North Atlantic, old folds, slight creasing, 285 x 375 mm

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The first described item is copied from Fra Mauro's 9-sheet world map of 1459. The original Mauro map was discovered in the monastery of San Michel in Isola Murano. The map now hangs in a stairway in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice.