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AUSTRIA and HUNGARY - LAFRERI SCHOOL.
Austria e Hungaria. Rome or Venice: c.1560s. Engraved map of Austria and Hungary, 288 x 416mm, trimmed with original extened margins. (Some discolouration to upper central fold.) Tooley:1939 no.121, Woodward:1996 watermark 292.
LIGORIO, PIRRO (c.1513/4-1583).
Nova descriptio totivs Hvngariae. Rome: Michael Tramezzino, 1559. Engraved map of Hungary by Sebastiano di Ré, 463 x 387mm, trimmed with original extended margins. Karrow no.51/8, Tooley:1939 no.308, Woodward:1996 watermark 292.
Two rare and fine maps of Austria and Hungary. The first map was published anonymously, but is very similar to an edition, likewise undated, published by Antonio Salamanca in Rome. The second map was printed at the Rome workshop of Michele Tramezzino and his older brother Francesco. Pirro Ligorio, the architect and antiquarian, took his information from the four-sheet map of the region completed by Georg Tanstetter from surveys by Lazarus Secretarius and Jacob Ziegler, printed by Peter Apian in 1528 (surviving in only one copy).
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Austria e Hungaria. Rome or Venice: c.1560s. Engraved map of Austria and Hungary, 288 x 416mm, trimmed with original extened margins. (Some discolouration to upper central fold.) Tooley:1939 no.121, Woodward:1996 watermark 292.
LIGORIO, PIRRO (c.1513/4-1583).
Nova descriptio totivs Hvngariae. Rome: Michael Tramezzino, 1559. Engraved map of Hungary by Sebastiano di Ré, 463 x 387mm, trimmed with original extended margins. Karrow no.51/8, Tooley:1939 no.308, Woodward:1996 watermark 292.
Two rare and fine maps of Austria and Hungary. The first map was published anonymously, but is very similar to an edition, likewise undated, published by Antonio Salamanca in Rome. The second map was printed at the Rome workshop of Michele Tramezzino and his older brother Francesco. Pirro Ligorio, the architect and antiquarian, took his information from the four-sheet map of the region completed by Georg Tanstetter from surveys by Lazarus Secretarius and Jacob Ziegler, printed by Peter Apian in 1528 (surviving in only one copy).
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