Upper Nile Region and West Africa 50 XIV. North Africa 52 XV. Black and Mediterranean Seas 54 XVI. Southwestern Europe 55 XVII. Atlantic Ocean and Islands 56 XVIII. Central Europe 56 XIX. Italy 57 XX. Southeastern Europe 57 XXI. Baltic Sea 58 XXII. Scandinavia 58 XXIII. Eastern Europe 59 XXIV. Far North 60 List of References 63 The Reproduction of the Leardo Map, by A. B. Hoen 71 ILLUSTRATIONS FIG. PAGE 1. The Leardo map of the world, 1452 or 1453 _frontispiece_ 2. Passage from mid-eighteenth century manuscript of the Doge Marco Foscarini referring to Leardo map of 1447 23 3. Passage from mid-eighteenth century manuscript of Giovanni Agostini referring to Leardo map of 1447 23 4. General key map _at end of book_ 5. Detailed key map; northeastern section _at end of book_ 6. Detailed key map; east-central section _at end of book_ 7. Detailed key map; southeastern section _at end of book_ 8. Detailed key map; northwestern section _at end of book_ 9. Detailed key map; west-central section _at end of book_ 10. Detailed key map; southwestern section _at end of book_ THE LEARDO MAP OF THE WORLD 1452 OR 1453 The notes will be found on pp. 21-28. In 1906 Archer M. Huntington, Esq., presented to the American Geographical Society one of three known maps of the world signed and dated by the Venetian, Giovanni Leardo. Of these, the oldest, as well as the crudest and simplest, is preserved in the Communal Library at Verona and carries the date 1442.[1] The second (1448), somewhat more elaborate in design, belongs to the Civic Museum at Vicenza.[2] The Society’s map,[3] the largest of the three, bears the signature in the lower right-hand corner: _Johanes Leardus de Venetteis me fezit abano domini 145_[?]. The last digit in this inscription is partly mutilated; the date, however, is probably either 1452 or 1453.[4]