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MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio (1555-1617). Italia, data in luce da Fabio suo figliuolo. Bologna: Clemente Ferroni for the author, 1620.
2° (395 x 280mm). Etched allegorical title by Olivero Gatto within typographical border, 15 ll. text, 61 engraved maps on guards, 58 double-page. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with engraved portrait of the author from the 1632 edition, and duplicate maps of Liguria and Istria, the latter hand-coloured. (Some soiling and some repairs with minor losses to margins of title and text, uncoloured map of Istria torn with loss, map of Citra with soil mark affecting cartouche, Calabria Ultra holed with slight loss in sea area, Sabina slightly soiled, map of Sicily tattered at margins and torn with slight loss to corner, others with closed tears repaired on verso, some partially split along centre fold, dampstaining mainly affecting text and final 15 maps, some maps affected by light creasing, occasional marginal soiling and a little worming, worming causing slight loss to duplicate map of Liguria.) Contemporary cartonnage binding, uncut (becoming loose). Provenance: de Rosalo, 1759 -- Bernardi (purchase inscriptions on inside front cover).
UNCUT COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, with title and dedication both dated 1620. This work of Magini, completed by his son Fabio, was to a great extent original and exercised an immense influence that led to the plates being shamelessly recopied within and outside Italy. The atlas combined the traditional styles of the Italian map-maker with features used in North European mapping, such as the 'Mercator' style wavy lines for sea patterns. Eleven of the maps bear the name of Benjamin Wright, the London engraver whose services Magini used in later years. The Nordenskiold copy contains one map additional to the 61 listed, a second map of Genova di Levante, not present in this copy. Graesse IV, 336; Libreria Vinciani: Autori Italiani del'600 1350; NMML III, 44; Nordenskiold 2 137.
2° (395 x 280mm). Etched allegorical title by Olivero Gatto within typographical border, 15 ll. text, 61 engraved maps on guards, 58 double-page. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with engraved portrait of the author from the 1632 edition, and duplicate maps of Liguria and Istria, the latter hand-coloured. (Some soiling and some repairs with minor losses to margins of title and text, uncoloured map of Istria torn with loss, map of Citra with soil mark affecting cartouche, Calabria Ultra holed with slight loss in sea area, Sabina slightly soiled, map of Sicily tattered at margins and torn with slight loss to corner, others with closed tears repaired on verso, some partially split along centre fold, dampstaining mainly affecting text and final 15 maps, some maps affected by light creasing, occasional marginal soiling and a little worming, worming causing slight loss to duplicate map of Liguria.) Contemporary cartonnage binding, uncut (becoming loose). Provenance: de Rosalo, 1759 -- Bernardi (purchase inscriptions on inside front cover).
UNCUT COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, with title and dedication both dated 1620. This work of Magini, completed by his son Fabio, was to a great extent original and exercised an immense influence that led to the plates being shamelessly recopied within and outside Italy. The atlas combined the traditional styles of the Italian map-maker with features used in North European mapping, such as the 'Mercator' style wavy lines for sea patterns. Eleven of the maps bear the name of Benjamin Wright, the London engraver whose services Magini used in later years. The Nordenskiold copy contains one map additional to the 61 listed, a second map of Genova di Levante, not present in this copy. Graesse IV, 336; Libreria Vinciani: Autori Italiani del'600 1350; NMML III, 44; Nordenskiold 2 137.
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