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    "label": "Carta particolare della Meta Incognita Australe con una parte della America Settentrionale",
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    "title": "Carta particolare della Meta Incognita Australe con una parte della America Settentrionale",
    "description": "The first printed sea chart of the waters between Labrador and Greenland, it shows coastal towns, prevailing winds, ocean currents, and magnetic deviations of the compass.",
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    "year": 1647,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "Italian",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_010146",
    "creators": [
        "Dudley, Robert, Sir, 1574-1649",
        "Lucini, Antonio Francesco, b. 1605"
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    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection",
        "Maritime Charts and Atlases"
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        "Coasts--Newfoundland and Labrador--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Coasts--Greenland--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Nautical charts--Early works to 1800",
        "Newfoundland and Labrador--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Greenland--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Labrador Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800"
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        "Newfoundland and Labrador",
        "North and Central America"
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    "publisher": "Nella stamperia di Francesco Onofri"
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    "notes": [
        "Covers coastal Labrador and the southern tip of Greenland, showing coastal towns, prevailing winds, ocean currents, and magnetic deviations of the compass.",
        "Depth shown by soundings.",
        "Prime meridian: Pico.",
        "Includes ill. of a ship.",
        "\"Di Europa carta LIII.\"",
        "In Dudley's Dell'arcano del mare, 1646-1647.",
        "Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor."
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