NUOAVA CARTA DEL POLO ARTICO... (California Island)

Colored, decorative map of the Northern Hemisphere and North Pole, which shows the Northeast Passage, but no definite Northwest Passage. Italian example of this map after Tirion and published by Giovambattista Albrizzi, publisher, patron, collector and one of the great figures of eighteenth-century Venetian intellectual and cultural life.
California is shown as an Island, along with the River systems of North America.

Reference: McLaughlin # 216-2.