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GATTI, Fr[ancesco] Giuseppe. [Licata]. Rome: [second half of the sixteenth century].
Engraved bird's-eye plan of Licata on a single Royal sheet 410 x 550mm (engraving 380 x 506mm). Key in strapwork cartouche, dedication in strapwork cartouche surmounted by the arms of the dedicatee Pietro Celestri, galleons, smallships, and figures. (Some light staining and spotting, old folds on verso.)
A very rare view of Licata dedicated to the Marquess of Santa Croce, with the river to the East of the city erroneously named Gela instead of Salso. In 281 BC Gela was destroyed by the Marmertines, and the displaced inhabitants resettled at Licata, some way along the coast. Gela has since been rebuilt, in the same place, and lies to the West of the river Gela. It is peculiar that this map should place Licata to the West of Gela. Not in Tooley; watermark similiar to Woodward 115-118.
Engraved bird's-eye plan of Licata on a single Royal sheet 410 x 550mm (engraving 380 x 506mm). Key in strapwork cartouche, dedication in strapwork cartouche surmounted by the arms of the dedicatee Pietro Celestri, galleons, smallships, and figures. (Some light staining and spotting, old folds on verso.)
A very rare view of Licata dedicated to the Marquess of Santa Croce, with the river to the East of the city erroneously named Gela instead of Salso. In 281 BC Gela was destroyed by the Marmertines, and the displaced inhabitants resettled at Licata, some way along the coast. Gela has since been rebuilt, in the same place, and lies to the West of the river Gela. It is peculiar that this map should place Licata to the West of Gela. Not in Tooley; watermark similiar to Woodward 115-118.