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Zatta - Map of North America - This excellent map is from Antonio Zatta's Atlante Novissimo published in Venice between 1776 and 1785. Zatta was an Italian editor, cartographer, and publisher. He was particularly active between 1757 and 1797, and is most known for the atlas presented here Atlante Novissimo . In this work he published the first impression of the Islands visited by Captain Cook. Map featured: America settentrionale divisa ne'suoi principali stati This is a detailed map of North America. It also includes the imagined Chinese Colony of Fou Sang in Canada based on Hui Shen's supposed voyage of 499 AD. It was mostly discredited later, but was believed to be where the Chinese first made contact with the west coast of North America. It shows the Northwest Passage based on Russian Explorations published by the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris. The scale of North America is too wide, and many rivers are shown far longer than the actual reach. Zatta combined almost every 17th and 18th century myth and fact of the American west into this single map. Paper Size ~ 15” by 19” (Fold Out)