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Copper-engraved Italian map of South America entitled "Carta Geografica della America Meridionale,"

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Copper-engraved Italian map of South America entitled  Carta Geografica della America Meridionale,
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Copper-engraved Italian map of South America entitled "Carta Geografica della America Meridionale," by Giambatista Albrizzi and Q. Girol (Venice) for a ca.-1740 publication (Atlante Novissimo), hand colored. 13-3/4" x 17". Excellent condition, with only light (original) fold in center, no tears or foxing, with beautifully colorful scene of Europeans meeting natives at bottom-left, also showing the various routes of early-1500s explorers in the Pacific.