DE ROSSI, Giovanni Giacomo (1627-91), Nicolas SANSON (1600-67) and Guillaume SANSON (1633-1703). L' America Settentrionale, Rome, 1687, hand-coloured engraved map, 385 x 530mm., framed and glazed.

DE ROSSI, Giovanni Giacomo (1627-91), Nicolas SANSON (1600-67) and Guillaume SANSON (1633-1703).  L' America Settentrionale. Nuovamento corretta, et accresciuta secondo le relationi più moderne. Rome: "nella sua Stamperia alla Pace," 1687. Hand-coloured engraved map of North America, foliate title cartouche with figures of indigenous peoples, California as an island (inconspicuously torn without loss at head and foot of centrefold, a few light spots), 385 x 530mm., framed and glazed. Provenance: Neville's Medieval Maps, The Wolds Gallery, Tring (label of guarantee on verso signed by the Director of the gallery and dated 21.1.77). Burden The Mapping of North America 491; Mclaughlin California as an Island 73: "Italian edition of the revised version (1669) of [Nicolas] Sanson's 1650 map"; Tooley 42.

Condition report
Foxing. Paper appears uneven/not laid flat.
Small vertical tears to top and bottom along central crease.
Other small marks in places.
Under glass, unexamined out of frame.