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GAL. I. Ant[onio]. Naviglio della communita di Cremona. [Cremona: 1588].
Woodcut map of the waterways from the river Oglio to Cremona on a cut-down single sheet, 187 x 281mm, and letterpress list on a cut-down single sheet, 223 x 173mm, window-mounted together 550 x 405mm. The map with topographical features and Cremona shown in bird's-eye perspective, the waterways with bridges and bankside farms. (Trimmed to image.) The letterpress lists the amount of water each settlement or farm may take from the irrigation system. (Trimmed.)
An interesting an unusal view of the Cremonese campagna with an emphasis on the hydrography and irrigation of the region. Cremona can be seen at lower left margin, and the map is enlivened with attractive pictorial elements. This map is related to Lodovico Cavitelli's Annales ... ad annum ... 1583, which was published in Cremona by Cristoforo Draconi in 1588. Not in Tooley; Watermark similar to Woodward 174.
Woodcut map of the waterways from the river Oglio to Cremona on a cut-down single sheet, 187 x 281mm, and letterpress list on a cut-down single sheet, 223 x 173mm, window-mounted together 550 x 405mm. The map with topographical features and Cremona shown in bird's-eye perspective, the waterways with bridges and bankside farms. (Trimmed to image.) The letterpress lists the amount of water each settlement or farm may take from the irrigation system. (Trimmed.)
An interesting an unusal view of the Cremonese campagna with an emphasis on the hydrography and irrigation of the region. Cremona can be seen at lower left margin, and the map is enlivened with attractive pictorial elements. This map is related to Lodovico Cavitelli's Annales ... ad annum ... 1583, which was published in Cremona by Cristoforo Draconi in 1588. Not in Tooley; Watermark similar to Woodward 174.