William Henry Babcock
Excerpt from Legendary Islands of the Atlantic: A Study in Medieval Geography ,Map of the Sargasso Sea, 1:72,000,000; The Pizigani, 1367 (two sections); Beccario, 1426; Dalorto, 1325; Catalan map, 1375; Nicolay, 1560; Catalan map, about 1480; World map in portolan atlas, about 1508 (Egerton MS, 2803); Desceliers, 1546; Ortelius, 1570; Ptolemy, 1513; Prunes, 1553; Coppo, 1528; Bishop Thorlaksson, 1606; Map of the early Norse Western and Eastern Settlements of Greenland, 1:6,400,000; Clavus, 1427; Donnus Nicolaus Germanus, after 1466; Zeno, 1558; Beccario, 1435; Pareto, 1455; Benincasa, 1482; Representation of Corvo on fourteenth- and fifteenth- century maps as compared with its present outline; Buss Island, probably 1673; Bianco, 1436 ,About the Publisher ,Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ,www.forgottenbooks.com, ,This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
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Legendary Islands of the Atlantic: A Study in Medieval Geography