Vavassore chart of the Mediterranean Sea, believed to be the earliest surviving printed chart, 1541
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Vavassore chart of the Mediterranean Sea, believed to be the earliest surviving printed chart, 1541
Scale: [ca.1:2 500 000]
'La vera descrittione del Mare Adriatico: di Larcipelago; & Mare di Isola ... opera di Giovanni da Vavassore dito Guadgnino... citta di Vinegia. MD.XXXXI'.
Bibliography: 1. Almagia, Roberto. 'La Carta d'Italia di G.A. Vavassori'. La Bibliofilia (1914) 81-8; 2. Almagia, Roberto. 'Il Mappamondo di G.A. Vavassore'. Rivista Geografica Italiana, xxvii (1920); 3. Bagrow, Leo. 'Giovanni Andrea di Vavassore...a descriptive list of his maps' (1939). Derek Howse and Michael Sanderson 'The Sea Chart' pp.29.
Giovanni Andrea Di Vavassore of Venice
- Image reference: F0209
- National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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