It’s a cartographic creation that, literally, put “Canada” on the map — a 436-year-old, Italian-made globe, believed to be the first of its kind to label the northernmost part of the New World by the name that’s still attached to this country. The well-preserved wooden sphere, created in 1577 by printmaker Mario Cartaro, is to be sold next month at a British auction, along with a matching “celestial” globe depicting the heavens as understood by 16th-century scholars.
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