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    "title": "Italia antiqua, cum itineribus antiquis, cum insulis Sicilia, Sardinia & Corsica",
    "description": "Nicolas Sanson, one of the earliest of the great French cartographers, produced in addition to modern (contemporary) maps, a series of maps of the \"ancient world,\" including this one of Italy under the Romans. Using texts both ancient and modern, Sanson reconstructed, as best he could, the roads, towns, and regions of \"ancient\" Italy.",
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        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
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        "Italy--Maps--Early works to 1800"
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