L’America secondo le ultime osservazioni divisa ne’suoi stati principali

1788

Hocken Maps122 1788

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Drawn in 1788 by Giovanni Maria Cassini (ca. 1745-1824), an Italian engraver, cartographer and globe-maker, this Western Hemisphere map shows all Captain Cook’s voyages. It also marks Cook’s death in the Sandwich Islands on his third voyage. Cassini produced a three-volume world atlas and some of the South Pacific maps included were based on those originally drawn by Cook himself. The cartouche drawing is meant to represent America as a young woman surrounded by native animals.