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IL GAZZETTIERE AMERICANO CONTENENTE UN DISTINTO RAGGUAGLIO DI TUTTE LE PARTI DEL NUOVO MONDO DELLA LORO SITUAZIONE, CLIMA, TERRENO, PRODOTTI, STATO ANTICO E MODERNO, MERCI, MANIFATTURE, E ... The first edition of the Italian translation of this handsomely illustrated topographical dictionary of the New World, providing information on the geography, natural history, manufactures, trade and commerce, settlements and fortifications in North and South America. This edition is vastly enhanced from the first English from which it is translated, the original being a duodecimo with only eight maps."A comparison of the entries [between the English and Italian editions] shows that although the words were translated literally the printer, Marco Coltellini, has elevated the cramped, unattractive English original into a handsome book, and the visual effect of the Italian edition is strikingly superior. Because it is a translation of an English work, there is much more information about the English colonies in America than is found in most geographical books written by continental authors up to this time" - Hough.Howes similarly affords this Italian edition a higher rating than its English progenitor. The beautiful plates and maps, drawn from a variety of sources, richly illustrate this edition, with scenes of Quebec, Niagara Falls, cod fishing in Newfoundland, New York, Boston, Santiago, Acapulco, Lima, Havana, Florida, St. Eustatius, and Santo Domingo, and maps of the Great Lakes, Newfou

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