Memoir on a mappemonde by Leonardo da Vinci, being the earliest map hitherto known containing the name of America : now in the royal collection at Windsor / Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries by Richard Henry Major.

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Memoir on a mappemonde by Leonardo da Vinci, being the earliest map hitherto known containing the name of America : now in the royal collection at Windsor / Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries by Richard Henry Major.